ALIENS

 The day after thanksgiving most people go shopping.  Well since we didn't have anything we needed to go shopping for we decided to take a road trip.  We went out west to find the town of Rachel NV.  We had been out this way  before but hadn't gone all the way to Rachel.  So we packed up the dogs and took some hot chocolate and went to find us some aliens.  The town of Rachel is right on the northern border of Area 51.  Their claim to fame is they have spotted aliens in the sky.  Now we really did know we wouldn't find any aliens so when we got there and there weren't any we weren't that disappointed.  But when we looked the town up on google earth it showed an entire city block with the picure of the KFC guy on it, we were disappointed to find out it wasn't there still.  Oh well it got us out of the house seeing new sites. =)

This is the sign outside of the Little A'Le'Inn.  It is the only store in the town.  Kinda sad they had to attach the space ship to a tow truck in order for it to fly. =)  I was surprised by how many people lived there.

These 2 pictures are of the signs on the border of Area 51.  They have security camera's on the mountains and people with trucks waiting to catch you going over the line.  The first offensive is $600!!! Don't worry we didn't find out by experience.  We got a map back in Rachel that said that.  The whole place made me nervous and I really had to talk Kyle into not going over the line =)

After we visited the border of Area 51 we went on a search for old gold mines.  We found 2.  We only made it to one and it was HUGE!  You could probably drive your truck or car into them.  They went on for miles but I was cold and alittle scared so we didn't go too far in.  We did make it to a the elevator in one of them.  Kyle said he could see to the bottom cuz of the water in the bottom and it looked like it was about 50 stories to the bottom.  It also went way up high too.  We just might have to go back there and check it all out.  They had electricy set up for them but we didn't dare turn it on.

After we had played around those gold mines we took off for Delamare.  We have been to this place numerous times and walked in all of the gold mines there.  This is a picture of one of the buildings still up.  There are alot of buildings still there but this is the most complete one.  We only stayed here for a few minutes cuz we were running out of gas.  After we got gas in Caliente we took off for Delamue Ranch to see some deer.  We had been told they congregated here and really didn't expect to see very many but we were surprised!  There were tons!  We saw a good looking buck and tons of other people checking out the deer.  We got there pretty late so we couldn't take any pictures and couldn't see the deer very well.  We will have to take another trip out there. 

Over all we had a pretty good Thanksgiving. We got to spend it with Kyles family this year. We had dinner on thursday and on saturday we ate with Kyle's step dad's family. The food was good and the company was great.