Planning your time: Rick Steve's has a great itinerary that flows well from place to place and shows you how much you can realistically cram into one or two days. We started here, then deleted what we weren't interested in and added a few other things based on web research. It gives you a good idea of how long to spend at certain attractions. We...

Loaded on a bus @ 8:00 to a paddle boat for a river cruise with stops at a Dogsled training station, an indian center. Also we had lunch at the famous Pump House of old. After lunch we were off to a Gold Mine to reap our fortune. My panning of gold amounted to a whole $9.00 Christa did a little better. The next day we headed out to a Research Ce...

In the morning, everyone met up with us at the airport. My nieces were happy to see us. It was a little funny because they were late to the airport. Apparently, we called the same cab company, and our same exact cab driver drove all the way into town to pick them up -- about a block or two from the hotel we were staying at. It would have been ea...