Brett and I drove up to Sacramento on March 14 after work to spend the weekend with Grandma & Grandpa Rosenlof. We had a wonderful time with them! We helped around the house a bit and Brett was excited to mow the lawn in Grandpa’s “wellies.” (garden boots)
He also changed a light bulb with the very tall ladder and the light bulb gripper. He loved it! Grandma, Grandpa and I cheered him on from the safety of the ground.
Grandma & Grandpa took us to Old Sacramento, which was a very cute part of town.
We went to the Sacramento train museum, which was so fun! There were rooms full of the history of trains with artifacts and information to read. Then, we walked into a HUGE room full of decommissioned trains. It. Was. Awesome. Some of them were decorated on the inside to match the 1800s, when trains were beginning to be popular, and it was so fun and interesting to see the styles. In a way, it was romantic. Maybe just to me. I think the women were so beautiful in the 1800′s in their dresses, gloves and hats with their hair pinned up. I loved seeing the displays in the trains and thinking about how much fun that must have been. It was fun to see how the trains had evolved over time and how they were powered.
You could go inside some of the trains to get an even better idea of what a trip was like on a train. One of the trains you could go into rocked and had noises like a real overnight train did to give you an idea of what it was like to travel and sleep on a train. We went to the mail car of the train, which was special to Grandpa because his uncle worked in a similar mail car. We didn’t know it when we stepped up into the car, but we were in for a treat. There was a docent who worked on a mail car for about 15 years and had first hand experience with the job. He explained how and why they did the things they did. It was so fun to learn about it!
That night, we were in for another treat. Grandma & Grandpa took us to see a very fun play called “Enchanted April” at the Chatauqua theater.
Brett and I love going to the theater and seeing plays/musicals. Enchanted April was a very cute play and had a lot of Italian in it, which Brett enjoyed listening to. We really had a nice time at the play.
When Sunday afternoon rolled around, Brett and I were sad to go back home. We had had such a great time at Grandma & Grandpa’s! Luckily, we get to go again this coming weekend and we can hardly wait.