January 12, 2014
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Epic Road Trip, day 21, part 1
After spending the previous day caching in Rio Linda, where my sister-in-law told me later I shouldn’t have gone, her and my brother, and my brother that came up from where he lives in California, my kids and I all got together — girls in one car, boys in another — and went to Old Sacramento. One of my big splurge ideas for the trip was taking the Underground tour.
While we were waiting for the tour to start we spent a bit of time wandering the boardwalks and peeking in the windows of some shops.
Yes, Quin was pretty impressed by the Lego bear and would have happily spent the day surrounded by Legos he could play with, but we had other things to do.
This is where our tour started. I wasn’t allowed to photograph anything during the tour so the camera had to take a nap.
After the tour, however, our guide, Miss Odessa, encouraged us to get a photo of her with the kids so we did that. As you can see, Kendrah was crazy about her and Quin didn’t want to be there at all.
Quin found his own brand of fun elsewhere!
We spent some time in the history museum and I got several photos that I thought would make great puzzles. In fact, this day was so full of interesting textures and colors I got a lot of puzzle photos.
I also found it vastly amusing to see a replica building inside the museum. The Sacramento Bee, in part of it’s glory, displayed inside.
Inside the building-inside-a-building I could see some of the original printer’s tools, the press and stuff my Dad could probably name but just looked like cool tools to me.
After the museum, we wandered around the grounds near the Sacramento River and did some more window-shopping.
We went into an olive oil and vinegar tasting room, and I was in awe of how many flavors there were. Vats and vats and vats lined up along the walls and center aisle that we could sample at will. I didn’t think it would be fun to taste oils and vinegars without something to eat it with, but it was a very interesting experience and I really appreciate that I did it. It was easy to taste it and connect it in my brain to a memory of a food. That would be excellent added to a spaghetti sauce, that vinegar would be good with fresh cucumbers, can’t you just imagine how a loaf of French bread would be dipped in this oil? There were a few I wouldn’t try, a few I tried and didn’t like, and a lot I didn’t get around to tasting, but the majority of ones I did taste, both oil and vinegar, were outstanding.
After a while, with 6 different tummies all growling we decided to stop what we were doing and immediately….
….because we couldn’t wait for their special.
But the meal and the rest of our day has to wait for another post.
Comments (1)
Old Sac used to be a really fun place to go — looks even better now. Love the puzzle shots!