Thanks to Madison and her talented Academic Decathlon team winning the San Bernardino County Championship we had a wonderful reason to take the kids to Sacramento for the first time. It was an awesome experience watching her compete in the super quiz portion of the tournament, in which we saw her get 9 out of 10 questions correct (her personal best!). Sadly, in my rushing around I left my camera in the hotel room on the night of the event.
An interesting side note, the hotel that Madison was staying in was also hosting the Minnesota Timberwolves. I walked in and said to my mom, "Hey, that's Kevin Love!" My mom didn't believe me at first until he stood up, then we both knew it HAD to be him! I know most of you won't know who Kevin Love is, but he is a former UCLA basketball player who now plays in the NBA. I felt too silly to go and ask for his autograph so I just let him walk by, and no one else seemed to even know who he was!
The following Monday morning we met up at the Capitol building for our own personal tour since we had a group of 10 of more. What a fun and interesting hour. Our tour guide was so enthusiastic and full of interesting facts for the kids. They are still talking about some of the things that he told them. Today, Luke wrote a spelling sentence, "The people had to rebuild the capitol building" based on the story that he heard!
We were happy to have my mom along for the trip! She rode up to Sacramento with me and the kids while Dylan and Bill had to stay behind for a basketball tournament. She was sweet enough to pay for them to come up on a plane on Sunday night to meet us in Sacramento. Dylan got to ride on an airplane for the first time, and it was fun to hear him explain his perspective of everything. He was so excited to sit next to the window, and see the inside of a cloud, which he discovered was really nothing exactly. He couldn't believe how small everything looked from up there.
Here is our tour guide explaining all of the intricacies inside the capitol building. He spent a long time explaining what all of the different things on the state seal meant.
The tour guide said that the rotunda is the most photographed part of the building. Here you can see everyone taking their own shot.
He also showed us the one "error" in the floor that the designer put in as his own personal signature. Can you find the mistake?
The state senate wasn't in session so they let us in to have a look and take pictures. The state representatives were actually in session when we were there, so the kids got to see government in action! Although, they didn't see much of anything except for people sitting there talking as documents were being passed out. :)
Throughout the building were portraits of our past governors. I had to stop and take a picture of our personal favorite, Ronald Reagan.
Lori wanted her picture next to Jerry Brown which caused an amusing conversation about WHY she would want to have her picture taken with Jerry Brown! Just so you know, Lori is not a democrat! :)
My little pirate! In the next few posts will you notice that my little Lukey has one glass darkened and the other is clear. Long story short: the eye specialist recommended that we take out the lens in his left eye glass in order to force him to use the right eye more, and make it stronger. We didn't have time to order another lens with the photo-gray in it, so all of the outdoor pictures will look like this. It didn't bother him until we got home and he saw all of the pictures. He said it was okay to still post them. He has had such a great attitude about this whole process.
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