Friday, June 7, 2019
We attended the 7:00 a.m. Mass at St. Stephen's again and then visited my friend Tish and shopped in her Catholic bookstore--still my favorite across the country.
David napped in the car as we drove across the causeway to Davis to meet Dad at 9:00 for breakfast at Cindy's Diner.
Dad had to work for a few hours, so I took the children on a driving tour of Davis where I grew up. It was exceedingly difficult to find my way around, as the town had a population of 36,000 when I was a baby and now has an estimated 70,000 (which does not count the 35,000 enrolled students at UC Davis). I drove past my elementary school, junior high school (so run down!), high-school, and university.
Nearly all of the businesses downtown were now different and unfamiliar, so we ate ice cream at Baskin Robbins in lieu of lunch (vacation!), fed a squirrel, and departed.
Back at the rental home, I tried to get David to nap, but he thought the 20 minutes in the car at 8:00 a.m. had been sufficient, so he never slept.
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| Gross flavor of salt water taffy |
While we were visiting the gift shop at the railroad museum, a homeless man, behaving as if he were intoxicated by a substance, burst in (certainly did not pay admission like the rest of us) and moved around the store, touching items for sale and speaking loudly, distressing the lady sales clerks and the patrons. But what to do? Police have their hands tied to do anything except in, I suppose and hope, cases of actual violent assault.
Old Sacramento is a rebuilt version of how it looked in the late 1800s, however, the shops there are very touristy and silly.
Of course, not captured in these photos were the numerous homeless men camped about Old Sac.
We ate dinner uptown at the Original Spaghetti Factory, before heading back to the rental house for more board games and watching the 1981 seven-episode BBC version of "Sense and Sensibility." This was a superior version of the film that we all enjoyed exceedingly.
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