Spent the weekend in "gold country", stayed in a really cool old (and they say haunted) hotel called the
Cary House in Placerville that was the nicest place round during the gold rush.
Mark Twain and a bunch of other famous folks stayed there back when the gold rush was on.
There was a festival where the kids could pan for gold and gems and they had a great time exploring a mine. Really pretty up in the Sierra foothills.
http://kieranscot.blogspot.com/2009/09/placerville-gold-country.html
