My Brother and I......

Last August I ran out of work so I called a guy in Salt Lake City to see if he had extra work for me to join him for a week. After I got work all squared away I then called my little brother to see if he wouldn't mind putting me up for a week while I came to work. He of course didn't care and was delighted to have me come to visit, and while I did we shot the breeze and went out and had some fun. On one occasion I wanted to go panning for gold since I brought my gold pans and wanted to try my luck panning for gold while I was here, and successfully talked my little brother into coming with me. We took his little Honda because gas was $4.00 or more a gallon during this time and it was very spendy to fill my truck up. I previouly had in mind going to the Spanish Fork Canyon to pan for gold and this was roughly a 40 minute drive from where my brother lives. We loaded up what we thought we would need and I grabbed my gold pans and my metal detector just in case and we went to the service station to fill up with gas and started out around 5 pm. 40 minutes later we were at the entrance of the canyon and we didn't realize that we had to pay an entrance fee, and when we got to the fee house we told the lady what we wanted to do and the lady looked at us and smiled and let us on through with-out paying and told us where we could go pan for gold.
We drove up the canyon about 3/4 of a mile from the fee house and found a spot that looked pretty good, so we grabbed our stuff and headed to the creek to pan for gold. I grabbed my pan and filled it with gravel and dirt from the creek and started to swirl it around to feed off the unwanted rocks and dirt to get to the gold. My brother didn't know how to do this so he watched for a minute and grabbed my other pan and tried to copy what I was doing and before long he had it down pretty good. We didn't find any gold but the black sand concentrate was very rich and I figured that we may have been to far down stream to get anything. By this time the daylight was dimming and it was getting hard to see what we were doing, even though it was plenty light outside the area we were at the Sun was going down on the other side of the mountain. So we packed up our things and headed back to Salt Lake to grab a bite to eat and I told him that I had alot of fun metal detecting when I had the chance. After dinner my bother said lets go metal detecting since we had alittle more daylight in the valley we headed to a spot that was a historical site. It wasn't far from home and we got there in no time and we parked and grabbed my Garrett 150 and started to look for treasure. Right off the back it beeped and we found a quarter 2 inches below the grass and I showed him how to put everything back just the way we found it. We did this for probably 2 hours and we found all kinds of stuff, we found an old key, several coins that added up to 30 some odd cents and hair clips, and other stuff I can't remember. My brother was just bouncing off the walls because of all the things we were finding and it was pushing 10 pm and we were still detecting under the light post that were around. We finally called it a night and headed back home. I had a great time hanging out with my little brother and I wish we had more time to hang out and find more treasure. Hopefully next time I get work in the area I can invite my brother to go treasure hunting with me again.