Gold!

(Today's Blogger: Joshua) Today we arrived at Columbia, an old mining town between Yosemite and San Francisco. They had a bunch of things to do like a blacksmith and gold panning. They also had a lot of cool stores like a candy kitchen and a pioneer emporium. We stayed at a campground nearby called Marble Quarry (from the big marble boulders you can see in the picture with Elena).
When we went to tour Columbia we did lots of cool stuff like go gold panning where Maria got 337 garnets. Then we went to this awesome candy kitchen where I got this huge jawbreaker. It turned my whole face and hands red. I looked like the Joker. Mom couldn't come with us because she was sick.
The next day we went back to Columbia because Mom hadn't seen it before. So we walked around a bit. Then we went into this store where I had my first taste of sasparilla. It tasted like root beer mixed with licorice. We also went to a museum and saw a movie about the history of the town. We also saw places where they filmed movies and then went back to the trailer. We packed up and set off for Stockton.