History....

We have two other families that are our "family"

here in Kingman.

When you live away from your extended family....others stand in.

We spend a Sunday dinner a month eating dinner at each others houses and 

celebrate birthday's together.

We laugh a lot!

Yesterday, we all cara vanned out to the old town of Cerbat.

An old mining town from the middle 1800's to the first part of  1900's.

The town had 100 residents.

Cerbat c. 1900 Courtesy Mohave Museum of History and Arts, Kingman

It was AWESOME!

Seriously amazing to me.

I am a lover of History and it's "stories"

There were abandoned mines left wide open!  The guys would throw rocks (boulders) down them.

We would all stand quietly listening to the rock make it's

journey down these shafts.  The rock would pound off of the walls ferociously until we would hear a loud splash as it hit 

water at the bottom.

My Jared was way too close to the edge!

There were murders, suicides, and a hanging in this little town!

There is a grave yard which contains about 20 or so graves of the people from  this now ghost town.

There were "Families" that lived in this town. Two Doctors and two lawyers lived there too.

The Post Office

Ellie, Me, Ashley

Back row Doug, Jonah, Jared, Belle, Jeff.

Jake, Kyla, Talmage, Jayden

Great memories