Went out to the river today. Got a small bucket full of cons and some pictures out of it. Going to save the cons for a while, until I get "Project 2" underway (more on that later).
Here are some pics of the outing:

My oldest, Johnnie (nicknamed Kitty), running the bazooka.

My little girl, Micha (pronounced Mee-sha) trying her hand at panning.

Both my miners working, while I "supervise".

Both girls digging out a really large hole in the rocks (that was just full of black sand).

Kitty trying to teach Micha the "right way" to pan.
We moved about 12 full buckets of material through the sluice today, and ended up with about a cup of heavy concentrates after clean out and panning off some of the larger gravel and blonde sand.
All in all, a very fun day with the family, and you never know, maybe even a bit of gold!