Field Trip

I have a list of things that I wanted to see and do over the summer. It is hanging on my refridgerator, staring me in the face every time I walk by it. I have not crossed any of those items off my list...until today! Kevin and I went to Sacramento and played tourist. We hit the Crocker Art Museum, where they had a great exhibit of Maxfield Parrish prints, as well as their other wonderful exhibits. After that, we went to Sutter's Fort. Shockingly enough, I have not been there before and wanted to see it (my mom insists that I was there, when I was four or five years old, but I have no memory of it). I used to live in Sacramento...I was a history major...somehow the fact that this was my first trip there is kind of sacrilegious. I should have been there more often. Or at least once, while I lived in the city. But I have seen it now, and it was fun and interesting. There are people there who are a little too excited to dress up and pretend they are part of the original Sutter's Fort crew (rocking it like it's 1849!) and know a little too much about everything there. I spoke to one lady who had over 4,000 hours of volunteer duty. Who has that kind of time? What about a real life? But the whole day was fun and interesting. I enjoyed myself, thoroughly, even if it was hotter than Hades out there. I had forgotten what summer was like in Sacto. But good times, all around.