June 22-23, 2006 - Sacramento & Columbia
Mom and I drove down to Old Town Sacramento to visit the Discovery Museum there. They also have the California State Railroad Museum but I'll have to check that out next time.
Sacramento was really hot -- 105 degrees.
Another look at Old Town.
"The oldest art museum in the American West has a collection of art from Europe, Asia, and California, including Sunday Morning in the Mines (1872), a large canvas by Charles Christian Nahl depicting aspects of the original mining industry, and the magnificent Great Canyon of the Sierra, Yosemite (1871), by Thomas Hill. The museum's lobby and ballroom retain the original 19th-century woodwork, plaster moldings, and English tiles."
The next day, my nephew Max and I hopped in the Citabria and flew to Columbia Airport (O22) -- elevation 2,118 feet -- about 50 miles to the southeast. My parents and other nephew, Sam, were driving there and we were going to meet my sister and the rest of her family there.
A pond where the boys go swimming in the summer. My kids swam there too about five years ago when we were here visiting.
The town of Columbia is one of The Gold Country towns. They have made a nice old town section that looks like it must have been back in the early 1850s.
