On the morning of the last day of our road trip, we went back to the old city to get brunch. Surprisingly, it wasn’t easy finding a place that was open that we also liked. We finally found Fat’s City.
Review: It’s fine.
We stopped by the Old Sacramento Historic Foundation. They have some nice exhibits with tools from the Gold Rush era and a souvenir store. Like any good souvenir store, they have some of those Chinese puzzles, and when I threw my hands in the air in victory after solving one, I nearly broke an antique chandelier. Had I done that, this would have been a really expensive road trip. But I didn’t.
Review: It’s fine.
We stopped by the Old Sacramento Historic Foundation. They have some nice exhibits with tools from the Gold Rush era and a souvenir store. Like any good souvenir store, they have some of those Chinese puzzles, and when I threw my hands in the air in victory after solving one, I nearly broke an antique chandelier. Had I done that, this would have been a really expensive road trip. But I didn’t.
Next, we went to the Train Museum. There’s a lot to see, and my favorite things were the section about model trains and a dining car that had menus from different eras.
We then drove to the Powerhouse Science Center. I like visiting other science museums. I enjoy seeing how they do things differently than we do at the Exploratorium, and sometimes I find exhibits that were built by us, or at least inspired by our exhibits. Also, I can get Julia and myslef into most of them for free.
Just as we got there, a show was starting in their little planetarium. It was a pretty generic presentation, but at some point the presenter said that although we refer to the bright cloud we see in the sky as the Milky Way, actually all the stars that we see with our naked eye are in our galaxy. It makes sense, but both Julia and I never thought about it. We were a little shocked.
The museum itself is small and is designed mostly for kids. There are a few physics exhibits and some exhibits about the nano scale.
The highlight, however, is the nature section. Bradley, the docent, was very friendly and knowledgeable, and he introduced us to all the animals. Most of them are rescued animals, like a lizard whose tail had been cut off by its shitty kid owner, and Bud the bullfrog, who was in the process of digesting a mouse.
We were done. We drove back home, with the presidential debate playing live on Julia’s phone. We are definitely living in the future.
I hope you enjoyed this short trip. We have some more coming up soon - there’s already a weekend in Hawaii all planned out, and we are starting to talk about another trip to China so stay tuned for the next installment of
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