More Golden Stories

Instead of sitting in front of the television and watching football games all day Sunday(which is what  i wanted to do) we went to Oregon Creek  and panned for gold.(Actually i was dragged kicking and screaming like a 10 year old girl) There is a state park there but its closed for the winter. We had the place to ourselves except for one other couple. And they were in a mild state of panic trying to find a restroom that wasn't locked. Another reason we had the place to ourselves is the temp. It was 33 degrees. and the water was even colder! The sun was shining very brightly and that made it very easy to see the gold in the sand. We got down on all fours(not a pretty sight) and picked up around 100 pieces of gold! Man, this is easy. We will be rich in no time.. i thought..Well, im sure you can guess the outcome of this story. I know that big Ed already guessed.  99 out of the 100 pieces was fools gold. And the one piece of real gold we found was about the size of this period . ok,maybe a little bigger. Fools gold shines like the real stuff but its flakey. And if you place a piece in your hand and mash down on it with your thumb it will smear as you move your thumb. Even though we froze our noo-nooies off and didn't find much it was still fun. In fact, im getting gold fever right now... gotta go...