7/19
Exploring more of downtown Sacramento.. spent the morning on the waterfront at the
Discovery Museum Gold Rush Center a hands on Childrens Museum with activity centers
designed for kids 3-12. We got in free with our membership to the Fleet Science Museum in
San Diego. We saw an old fashioned printing press and had Wanted Train Robber flyers
with Reese and Luc's name printed on it.
Very labor intensive they had to place a small metal tile for each letter printed and
pictures had to be etched in metal.
The kids played for hours learning about the Gold Rush, life for the pioneers, guessing about
what all the farming machinery did, and seeing a 1920's kitchen and the caning process.
We played at the river next door and watched a riverboat come down the river and to our
amazement, the bridge that stretched across the river began to turn and open a channel
for the boat to pass through!
Our afternoon was spent next door at the California State Railroad Museum where we saw
20 or so life size railroads and learned railroads impacted travel and development of the west.
We walked through dining cars (where the boys got to play the chimes calling everyone to dinner),
sleeping cars and a post office car and saw how they used trains to sort, deliver and pick up mail.
We learned about the Chinese Immigrants who largely helped build the railroads and saw
how they had to blast through mountains to lay the tracks.
Of course the highlight was actually playing with the very extensive wooden train set they
had set up for the kids!
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