Monday, August 24, 2009

The Capital Tour Continues

We enjoyed a casual day in Sacramento today (Pete:  for the record we drove through Olympia, Washington and Salem, Oregon on the way down here – those count, too!).  It was good to keep the mileage down after three 300-mile days in a row.  After a lazy morning I went to noon Mass at the Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament in Sacramento (that’s the fifth Diocesan Cathedral on the trip: Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Seattle, and now Sacramento!).  After Mass I walked a block over and looked at the California Capitol building.  After that was a quick run along the Sacramento River past the historic portion of Sacramento – very cool, but I’ve reached “quaint fatigue” and can’t really handle any more historic downtowns for a while. 

We also did a bunch of errands today: post office, shopping, laundry, etc.  This afternoon we dropped everything and went to the California State Fair.  It was a hoot!  We ate junk food; walked among the cows, pigs, sheep and goats; watched a horse show, a hypnotist’s act, and some African acrobats; and heard Tonic warming up for tonight’s concert.  We did not get on anything that turned us upside-down or spun us around.  It was a great time, and a fun and simple excursion today. 

Tomorrow I pick up Paul at the airport in the morning and we head down to Yosemite.  

**Whoops!  Two things from the fair I forgot to mention in the original post: the entertainment while we ate dinner was a squad (?) of belly dancers.  No lie - see the pics.  Also, in the Candy Building in the Expo area (yes, California has an entire building set aside to highlight achievements in candy - how awesome is that!?) they had a portrait of Schwartzenegger made out of Jelly Bellys.  (We had hoped to tour the plant while we were here, but it was a bit out of driving range.)

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