California State Capitol Building
Sacramento, California:
I am ashamed to say that I have never visited the Capitol Building
of the Great State of California. Even worse, my husband (born and bred
California Boy) has never visited the Capitol Building in Sacramento. Time
to rectify this situation. It is a very pretty Capitol Building as Capitol
Buildings go, with one of the largest rotunda's noted so-far.
California State House rotunda
We visited the rotunda, House & Senate chambers and walked
the halls to see the portraits of past Governors. We assumed Governor
Schwarzenegger was "in the house" due to the corps of State Troopers
guarding the door to the "Office of the Governor". The Govenator did not
come out to greet us and actually totally ignored our visit.
Jerry Brown's official Governor's Portrait
California State House
The grounds around the Capitol Building are very nice -
huge, old trees provided lovely shade for our afternoon stroll and fragrant
gardenia and magnolias scented our path. Never, even once, did we get even a
whiff of cigar smoke.
After our tour we went to Old Town Sacramento for a snack. We walked around
through the shops, but it is very disappointing to us that all these lovely,
historic buildings are filled with tacky tee-shirt shops and bad
restaurants. Something needs to be done about this right away.
RV Park: Cal-Expo RV Park