After a few days around Lake Tahoe, we drove to Sacramento to see Chito (nickname for Horacio) and Brendan. We slept at Chito’s since he had a house and Brendan was just moving into a new shared housing situation. Chito also had lots of pets: 3 cats, 2 dogs, 2 birds, and lots of aquatic animals (lungfish, turtles, goldfish, coy and more).
During the day Chito took us to work with him at the California Museum and showed us around behind the scenes. A LOT of the museum exhibits seem to be motivated by Maria Schriver, California’s first lady and wife of the governator, Arnold Schwarzenegger. Money and power sure do give you a lot of opportunity to change what people focus on.
The rest of the day we’d mostly lay around in parks and rest. Kim was still recovering from a nasty cold, so she’d sleep and I’d take photos of squirrels with my snazzy 12X zoom. Squirrels are incredibly funny to me for some reason. The park behind the Captiol building was a nice one.
One night there Brendan picked us up after work and we spent the whole evening cooking, eating and talking in his new house with his new roommate. We made soup with lots of veggies and artichokes. Californians are lucky for their long seasons of fresh produce.
The next day we saw Sacramento’s old town area which is kind of touristed up to look very old and has a lot of shops. I think it’s odd with the two major rivers that go through Sacramento that very little of the city seems to make use of them by being built close. Anyway, after that we laid down in another park until Brendan was off work and ready to leave for Yosemite.