Old Town Sacramento & Railroad Museum!

Hailee working on her "schoolwork"!

Faith hard at work doing her ABC's

Just a few of the MANY horses we saw ~

Self portrait of mommy & Hailee taken by Hailee!

Picture of daddy taken by Hailee (our little photographer!)

Faith, not wanting to smile for the camera (Hailee took this picture too!)

Old Town Sacramento transformed into the wild west!

Daddy, Hailee & Faith panning for gold!

Hailee showing off her money she earned panning for gold!

All of us at the train museum

On Sunday Aaron and planned a BIG day with the girls. First we took them to Old Town Sacramento for the annual Gold Rush Day's they put on. It was our first year and we will most likely go EVERY year it was SOOOOO much fun! They dump 200 tons of dirt in the street and block them off for ONLY horses & people! They transformed the entire Old Town into a scene out of the 1850's and it was AMAZING! We watched wild west "shoot-outs", a pony express exchange, and the girls panned for REAL gold then traded the gold in for money where they could purchase different things at mercantiles around the city! There was lots of old time muscians playing along the streets and people dressed to the nines in circa 1850 clothing. It was truly amazing! We visited the old schoolhouse where the girls had fun prentending they were in class and got to draw on the old slates and sit in all the old school desks. Seeing how it was about 100 degrees out we decided to take a nice A/C break and went into the Railroad museum where we got to see LOTS of big trains! The girls LOVED it - as so did Aaron! They had trains we could walk through and one was on a simulator where it felt as if we were actually going about 60mph! We rounded our day of with free candy & ice cream cones . . . the girls were in heaven and enjoyed every bit of it!