The Glitter Pit

(October 2017) 

We have been to St George so many times.

I swear every time we go visit my parents we discover something new.

This trip we discovered the GLITTER PIT....

We drove outta town with some cousins, shovels, picks, and buckets.

We drove down dirt roads for a few miles and then we came across a massive crater that sparkled like a diamond mine.

It was so cool and so bizzare.

We didn't go down into the actual pit to find our gypsum,

we dug around it.

And we found so much of it.

Some were small pieces like the one in Romneys hand.

We even scored a HUGE one like the one Miles is holding.

The guys worked on that big piece for a while.

Don't mind little miss.

 She apparently wasn't into digging.

Which was a bit surprising, because she loves dirt and is always dirty.

 

After we got back home, we got to soaking and scrubbing our gypsum.

And now we have beautiful clean, clear stones.

Glitter pits....who knew?