July 10, 2010

We headed back to Virginia City today to take a ride on the historic Virginia Truckee Rail Road. It was a 35 minute round trip ride to Gold Hill and back to Virginia City. We were in an open car so the view was awesome! But because of the open car, it was HOT!!!! There was a “train robbery” and the bandits boarded and asked for our generous donations! Ha ha ha, scary guys! All that was collected in the hold up was donated to the Shriner’s Hospital for Crippled Children.

After our train ride, we went to the Bonanza Café and ate out on the deck and enjoyed our 100 mile view! Then we did some looking around at some shops that we missed the other day. We saw the famous "Suicide Table" at the Delta Saloon. This is where millions of dollars were lost and many gamblers committed suicide right at this very table! Barb and I got “Tattoos” and then we headed out of town to catch the scrapbook store in Carson City before it closed. On the way, we saw a giant spider sculpture made of enormous iron poles for legs and a volkswagon beetle for a body! If it doesn’t make volume 2 of our book of oddities, it should! (see the July 8, 2010 post for an explanation of the book)

Back at the RV Park, we watched the movie “The Lake House” and went into town for a Mexican dinner.