A Sacramento Day Trip

We were walking to lunch, and saw all of these random circular pictures.

This one reminded me of Sun Valley!

There were so many, and it was kind of random because there were no captions or explanations anywhere.

Then there was this strange path leading to this random gold ball.

We came across State Capitol Park, which contains a Vietnam Veterans Memorial

The path leading up to the capitol building is lined with orange trees

We got lunch at Petra Greek, as per the recommendation of Ricky's friend

The succulent portion of the park

Ricky sticking his hand in a strange hole

Brooke standing by an orange tree

A reproduction of the Liberty Bell

We went on a tour of the capitol building, which was neat

Us by the California Bear Statue, named Mike or Bacteria Bear

We ended the day going through the temple, which was the reason for the trip

I made a little friend when I went to get some water for the drive home.

We had a fun day in Sacramento! There was actually more to do than we thought! We also explored Old Town Sacramento, but didn't get pictures there. Old Town Sacramento is so cool! It's like going back in time! It is so cute with it's little streets and shops! There were so many candy shops! We definitely want to go back and check out the passenger train next time.
-Brooke

The anti-vacation

So last weekend was long due to Memorial Day. Brooke had to work Saturday, so we thought we might have some sort of a stay vacation. We thought about going to Santa Cruz area, but ended up deciding against it as there surely would be tons of people visiting. We ending up deciding to see a movie. So we looked at the movie options nearby. Brooke and I ended up agreeing to watch Solo, which I had a mild interest in seeing because it has Donald Glover in it.

Brooke really just wanted popcorn. Sadly, it seems there aren’t any dollar theaters in San Jose area. I guess that is the nature of the crazy rent prices here.

Anyways, we got to the theater, and the matinee tickets were $10.75 each. Which seems a little pricey, but I was ok with it, we did after all have a $50 gift card - or at least I thought. When we used the gift card, we still had to pay 11 bucks. It ends up the $50 gift card was really a $10 gift card. We were originally promised a $50 Coldstone card, so when we got the Cinemark card we were a little disappointed (after all, we don’t go to movies all that often). Apparently at this place you need to pick your seats out in advance. All the good seats were taken, so we had to sit in the front left row. I didn’t realize how close this would be to the screen. The screen was so big and sooo close. It was larger than my field of vision, so I couldn’t even see it all at one time. I thought about the neck strain I would have sitting here. I thought about the 20 bucks the seats cost, and I decided, no way. So we went to customer support to exchange our tickets for the next showing, and sure enough, there were only seats in the front row. So we got a refund instead. So instead we walked around the mall and looked at Target. We couldn’t really buy much as we walked to the mall from our apartment.

So that was our Memorial Day weekend. Really kind of an anti-story. So that's the story how we didn’t go on vacation and we didn’t even see a movie.

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