Topaz Mountain

We stayed close to home for the majority of our spring break. We knew we wanted to do something out of our ordinary daily routine, so we decided to make a day trip to Topaz Mountain. Basically it is in the middle of nowhere and is this mountain you can prospect for topaz. We've wanted to go for awhile, and lucky for us, our friends the Knights and the Meads were able to join us. It was such a fun day! Sean got us all prepped by buying special rock hammers and chisels.

Jackson and Garner ("G") 

Davis and Cameron

We paid to actually prospect on a working mining site. The woman who runs the site with her husband was there to show us what to look for and helped get us started.

We had a great set up. We all brought lunches and lawn chairs and made an afternoon of it. We lucked out with perfect weather and surprisingly, all of the kids were happy the whole time!

Luckily, we all found topaz! It was like a treasure hunt. Bode seemed to really have the knack for finding it and had the best luck of our entire family. He found the biggest pieces and really got into it.

Bode's pile of rocks he kept bringing us and wanted us to go through :)

All of the kids had a good time. I kept thinking it was such a great place for the kids because they could roam freely and had an entire mountain of rocks to throw and smash with hammers.

Davis and Graham

I think prospecting must run in my Whittington blood because I have ancestors on that side who had a successful gold mine and I remember my grandpa being a rock hound. I have cousins who also love it and now my entire family loves it also.

Group shot taken from Darren's drone before heading home!