I was at the capital this weekend, supervising. I was under the impression I'd have something to do involving the supervising...no. I was there just in case something went wrong.
Nothing did.
Had I known this I would have brought something to do. I ended up walking around the city having a grand old time by myself, doing nothing, much like everything I do on a regular basis. It's interesting how much stuff there is to do that is absolutely free, but one only finds it when they have absolutely nothing to do.
Strange.
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Which capital?
Unfortunately for me, not Austin. This particular capital happens to be Sacramento.
I've never been to Sacramento. San Francisco is one of my favorite cities...beautiful! And Los Angeles is almost exactly like Houston, except for the weather. Which I suppose makes all the difference. Sigh.
I absolutely love San Francisco ... and hate LA. Houston is one of the few places in the country I haven't visited, though I may be there this summer with my friends on a baseball trip we do every year.
Houston is a good place for baseball...but the summer is brutal. Be warned.
I'm from the Midwest ... I fully aware of the ridiculously humid, hot, 120 (with heat index) temperatures ... complimented always by the -60 (with windchill) Winters.
It's why I tell people around here who complain about fog/weather/etc., you can't complain about weather until you've spent a Winter and Summer in the Midwest (my understanding is a Summer in Houston would qualify for the latter).
No worries, we usually spend the weekend drunk by a pool (or at the ball park during the game) ... it's the beauty of hot weather vs cold.
So what types of free things did you do in Sacramento? I've been to SF (and loved it), but not Sacramento.
I was going to post on the fun things I did ... actually, in retrospect it won't sound fun because I had to stay relatively close to the hotel.
I was surprised the entire capital building was open on a Sunday, including some of the sub-committee conference rooms. No surprise the governor's office was locked, but I tried getting in anyway. I was basically all over the place. I figured if I wasn't supposed to be there the doors would either be locked or I wouldn't have access. There were also a couple rooms set up as old school (turn of the century set ups, etc. Personally I think it would have been pretty cool to live and work in some of those old rooms, I love the dark wood, high back chairs ... but that's me.
On the streets I would have been lost if the streets were numbered/lettered, but knowing I needed to be at 12th and L made it easy to not get lost. The conscierge actually sent me in the wrong direction looking for a bookstore, that was a first.
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