19 March 2005
Scoop Of The Day
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Sacramento has a fabulous train museum that even Kaylyn enjoyed. We don't know how this giant steam shovel scoop is related (maybe they used it to dig passes or something), but we wish our local ice cream store had one!
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Time For Bridge
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This is the appropriately named Tower Bridge in Sacramento. We think it's a lovely color, but we're told that when the sun comes out it isn't just gold but GOLD. Regardless of its color it's one of those cool drawbridges that lifts the roadbed straight up rather than tilting in two sections like most do. We went over to see it on a lark but lucked out and got to watch it do its thing!
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18 March 2005
Many Moon #10
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This trip coincided with our tenth anniversary. We celebrated the day with supper at Pedro's, a delicious Mexican restaurant in a way cool building. The interior has many different dining areas simulating various parts of the inside and outside of a hacienda. Did we say the food was yummy? <g/>
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16 March 2005
Fancy Schmancy Movie House
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This is the Golden State Theatre in Monterey. When it opened in 1926 it was Da Bomb: the largest theater between LA and San Francisco, seating 1600 people - one-fourth of Monterey's population at that time! The theater had all sorts of fancy things like an emergency generator, and it was one of the very first to have talkies. It's had its travails over the years but is now being restored to its former splendor. Yummy!
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Hey! Monterey!
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One day Kaylyn motored down to Monterey. Here's what she saw:
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A pretty beach.
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Old canneries. Really old canneries.
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Beach. Beach. Seals!
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A boring old house that would have been demolished long ago but for Robert Louis Stevenson living there once upon a time. Ghosts were rumored to be about but none deigned to terrorize Kaylyn so she can neither confirm nor deny.
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14 March 2005
Scotty, Stamp Me Up
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| Every spring for the last many years running Michael has attended a programming conference in California. Kaylyn tagged along again this year, and while Michael was stuffing his brain learning about programming Kaylyn was visiting every stamp store she could find! (No, they don't have stamps at Whole Foods now; we just decided to eat real food rather than restaurant food this year.) And if she ran across the occasional museum along the way, well, she usually decided she could give up a little stamp-searching time to view its cultural sights!
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