Our next stop was Sacramento. They’ve preserved much of their historical downtown as a place for museums and tourist trap shopping. We skipped the tourist traps and looked into the Sacramento history museum, historical schoolhouse and Wells Fargo offices, and the California State Railroad museum.
Besides a Gold Rush exhibit, the Sacramento history museum mostly had displays on the farming of the region and the inventions farmers developed to better harvest their crops.
This photo is notable because 1) this is the original facade of the first Sacramento Bee newspaper office, 2) Derek was published in the Sacramento Bee during election season! and 3) his stance here with the kids reminds me of pictures of him (in the same jacket) standing next to me on Honours spring break field trips 16 years ago.
The kids love one room schoolhouses. I don’t know what it is. It’s not like Charis Classical Academy isn’t its own one room schoolhouse or anything…
The Wells Fargo office is a working branch where you can do real banking but also a mini-museum with Gold Rush and Pony Express era activities.
For lunch, Derek found a great burger dive, home of the cheese skirt.
The cheese is as big as a plate. (The onion rings were pretty good, too.) Pretty sure we skipped dinner this night.
And the kids loved the CA state railroad museum! It would be fun to go back there.
There were displays on how they built the first transcontinental railroad…
There were tons of train cars and engines!
In the mail car, kids can pretend to sort mail, just like in Seven Little Postmen!