We grabbed our shoes and purses and jumped in the car.... and sat there.
We had no idea where to go or what to do.
We tossed around ideas, like doing some clothing returns, shopping, walking, having lunch in Cave Creek etc...
None of it sounded very exciting. When all of a sudden- I remembered our long-forgotten metal detector! This is #2 in the 3 nerdy things I enjoy in life.
We grabbed the necessities for an afternoon of metal-detecting: the detector of course, a hoe, gloves and some bags!
We were off- but to where we did not know. We drove east on 60 and thought about hitting Florence but ended up going to the Goldfield Ghost Town and Lost Dutchman area instead.
On the drive we talked about the Lost Dutchman's treasure and where it might be buried. Kayla thought we ought to hike to the top of the mountains to look for it but I was ill prepared, wearing flip flops and not having an ounce of water in the car. I thought we best try that feat next time.
Instead we found some stretch of desert in the area and found many exciting things (well- exciting only to nerdy metal detectors. You see, old tin cans, 100 year old pennies and lost jewelry are very very exciting finds to us, whether they are worth anything or not!)
Kayla found old broken crates and very old tin cans. We got lots of hits on our metal detector but couldn't find anything in particular due to the large amount of metal (cans, nails etc) in the area.
In digging for one of our hits (estimated to be four inches deep) Kayla thought she saw some rope and tugged it out of the ground.
It turns out that the rope is either a piece of a 1000 year old Indian moccasin or a bit of old carpet!
What a great day!
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