Sunday was all about gold.
We drove over to Dahlonega, GA to see the Gold Museum, a gold mine, and to pan for gold & gem stones. Our first stop was the visitor's center to get our tickets. We decided to go to the Gold Museum to get our history lesson before we went panning for gold. 
This was a huge machine used to crush the rocks to get the gold out. And then we posed outside on the balcony of the Gold Museum in the center of town square.
We had a nice pizza meal with the smallest bread ever. The bread was fabulous, but really tiny. The waitress also could not count. She brought us 5 really tiny pieces for 8 people. Um, we're starving & wanted 2 pieces each, not 1/2 a piece of bread. After asking for more bread 3 times, we finally got enough.
After our lunch, we browsed a few stores, got some ice cream, and then went to pan gold. It was actually a lot harder than it looks for just a few microscopic pieces of gold.
The tour took us 200 feet below ground to see where they mined the gold. It was a nice cool 60 degrees down there.
The last stop was a different gold mine that included panning for gold again, gem mining, and a wagon ride that took us by many different animals (mostly birds).
(Yes, this was a real, huge turkey)
The moonshine still wasn't running that day.
We had great weather the whole weekend. I think Rachel's family enjoyed their first ever visit to a mountain home.
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