Going to nowhere to get ready for a big something!

We met Faith and Collin in Eureka on Saturday to tour the City Hall Building and the Opera House. Both were lovely, across the street from each other, affordable (city hall is free!) and where Faith wants to have her wedding and reception. Also across the street is a museum for the Nevada Sentinel (one of the first newspapers in Nevada) so it all just seemed meant to be.

After all the tours, we had lunch at the Owl Club and then Bill and Will went running while the rest of us checked out the airport which is six miles north of town. Not much to see, but there is a paved landing strip. Perkins field in Overton is much bigger. This was the only hangar at the airport.

Below is a picture of the stairwell at city hall leading to the courtroom where Faith plans to be married. They imported the wood from Spain in the 1870's for all the woodwork.

The ceiling is the original tin worked ceiling as well. It was lovely.

This is a view of the room in its entirety. The lady giving us the tour said, "Who wants to go play judge?"

Will got there first and was the judge. I think he liked it! Also, I thought this fuzzy picture of Faith looked a little bit like she is my daughter. That warmed my heart :)

 Eureka is a charming and teeny tiny mountain town (population 410). I should have taken a picture of main street from the south looking to the north. I think I could have gotten the whole thing in the picture!

Sunday morning we walked from our hotel (the north end of town) to Clementines, one of the restaurants in town on the north end of town. It took about 10 minutes because we were walking slowly and stopping to look at things. We got the name of the lady to talk to about catering and walked back to the hotel.

We didn't have anything left to do and Faith and Collin had to get back to Reno to get Faith's internet service taken care of so we headed back to Las Vegas. We saw the below sign in Ely that I thought was really cute. Ely is a thriving metropolis (of nearly 4000 people) compared to Eureka. There was even a Ramada Inn, but it's more than an hour away from Eureka.

I thought this building summed up this part of Nevada well. Old timey and built in the 1800s because of mining, but there is still a lot of mining happening there today. The process has changed quite a bit, but it's all ranches and mines in this part of Nevada.

It was great to see Faith. She and Collin still seem very much in love. We are wrapping our heads around a wedding in Eureka. Should be fun!!