The day started with a long walk to the farmers’ market! We asked the hostel’s desk clerk for directions.
Downtown Sacramento farmers’ market. Under a highway, dontcha know. We got lots of delicious free samples 🙂The aforementioned highway.Fortunately, the farmers’ market was right across the street from a scenic park with solar-powered… ducks?The local Japanese sweets shop.
We got:
Walnut and red bean.Peanut butter and mochi (and maybe red bean paste??) in a pancake.Roasted soy bean flour and red bean paste. Was the mochi green tea flavor? Uhhh…Sakura mochi.
The shopkeeper even put the sweets into my tupperware instead of the default styrofoam tray. Yay!
After a bit of a walk, we arrived at this hip and trendy mall.…with a custom cobbler!!!!!!! The shop is also the workshop. In the back there you can see a lasting machine and a welting machine, maybe.
Of course, I was super interested (and pleased to hear that they get enough business). But the shop only uses one particular last, which I’m not interested in. So, that’s a no-go unfortunately.
Huge burrito for lunch. J got ceviche.Neat street art. Reminds me of this.
We visited Sutter’s Fort and the State Indian Museum after lunch. Sutter’s Fort was an early settlement in California. I knew it only from it’s association with the Donner Party – it’s where they stayed to recover. I assumed Sutter’s Fort was a military fort, but… actually it was this guy’s private village.
Curiously, the fort was renovated in the late 1800s. So despite the fact that it’s not original, it’s historical in its own right.
The entrance.The doll of one of the children from the Donner Party. She smuggled it during the trip after her mother had all the children throw their toys away to lighten the wagons. The doll is only a few inches tall.The governor’s mansion! We walked by on the way to dinner. Sadly, tours are no longer available. The half mast flag was for some shooting that had happened recently.
We had disappointing Japanese food for dinner, so I’m not going to include pictures. All the photos are from J, by the way. We figured out a better way to share photos.
