Arriving in Sacramento

After getting a few hours of sleep upon returning from the Denver trip on Friday, we left the house bound for Yeager Airport in Charleston at 4 am on Saturday.  Although the jet was small, our flight to O’Hare was easy and without incident.  We slept most of the way and arrived in Chicago with a couple of hours layover. Mary had made a couple of sandwiches in an effort to clear some things out of the refrigerator and brought some fruit as well. Our Sacramento flight left on time and we were pleased to have nice roomy seats and that the only empty seat on the aircraft was in our row so we had plenty of room. The in-flight movie, Battleship, was pretty dumb but we dozed on and off anyway.  We arrived at Sacramento around noon local time and had picked up the checked bag, caught the shuttle to Enterprise and had picked up our Volkswagen Passat by 1 pm. Thanks to Jill the GPS, we had little trouble getting to David and Yeh’s house by 2 pm. Of course, Allyson kept us entertained for the afternoon.  Our dinner was shabu shabu which is done a little like fondue.  The technique is sometimes called Chinese Steamboat. There is a big pot of seasoned stock in the middle of the table and everyone puts their meat of vegetable of choice in and cooks to choice.  We had shrimp, squid, and chunks of fish as well as thinly sliced beef.  Bok choy was the vegetable which was very good cooked in the seasoned broth.

After dinner, we watched Allyson play in the pool.  She is quite a little fish and swims well.  We all went for a walk around the neighborhood after that.  The neighborhood is really nice and is a great place for them since it is close to connections to the highway while being in a secluded and safe area a short distance from the city.

Since we were tired from the travel and still running on Eastern Time, we turned in around 9 pm and slept well until around 5 am.