Sacramento Underground!

Really haven't shown you any pictures of our campground. We are located in Isleton on Brannon Island in the Sacramento Delta. We are surrounded by corn fields. The corn is used for feed for animals not for people. The swimming pool is in the white picket fenced area. You can see the RV's in the back.

Delta Shores

This is the sign on the road that is on the levee.

Delta Shores Resort & Marina

On the other side of the road that you can see in the above picture are docks for boats for guests of Delta Shores.

Delta Shores Boat Docks

Today we drove the 45 miles to Sacramento. We went to Old Town Sacramento to do the Underground tour. Back in the mid 1800's Sacramento would get flooded out by the Sacramento and American rivers. It was decided that the entire town would be built up by an average of 9.5 feet. That area is now called Old Town Sacramento. Entire buildings were jacked up and the first floors were where the second floors once were. Sidewalks also had to be moved up. It was the responsibility of business owners to pay to do the work. The sidewalks are all wood and hollow underneath.

Pictures are not allowed in the tour so I had to download the pictures for the blog from the internet, however they do accurately show what we saw in the tour.

Underground excavation site.

We were last here with the Blankenbillers in 2007. I was in talks with the Old Sacramento Historical Society about the tours. They were planning on setting them up, but were not yet set. Unfortunately they started them well after we were there. I actually saved the E-mail with Janessa Gonsalves from March 2007. She still works there, but has since changed her last name.

We of course decided to go on the tour. They take a maximum of 20 at a time. Thursday - Sunday they leave every 30 minutes from 10:30 - 3:00. Other days they do just 3 tours a day.

We arrived in time for the 12:30 tour. The cost is $15.00 each, so it was $30.00 for both of us. If we wanted to take a private tour, the cost is $300.00. 

The 1:00 tour had only 7 people, as the day went on more people were signed up, but guess what? Patty and I got a private tour!!! Just us. Our two tour guides Ellen and Rich joked that we got 90% off! :)

Underground buttresses

The tour was much more then an underground tour. We learned a lot about old Sacramento. They give you headsets so when you are on the streets you can easily hear the guide. Because it was just Patty and I, we could ask all the questions we wanted. The guides were excellent and it was SOOOO worth the $30.00! 

This picture is of a screw jack. They used these to jack up the buildings. They would then add bricks and build a wall underneath the old building.

Screw Jack

After the tour we went to another Diners, Drive-in's and Dive's place. The Squeeze Inn.

Guy Fierri

The Squeeze Inn had to be moved about around the corner because of ADA regulations into a strip mall. They still prepare the burgers the same way. While cooking the burgers they put about 1/2 lb. of grated cheese on the burger and then put ice chips on the grill and cover with a pan. This steams the cheese into the burger. It is juicy and ummmmm good!

True Cheese Paper! LOL

The cheese crisps up on the grill and makes a skirt around the burger. You can tear some of it off and eat it, which I did, and fold some more of it into the burger. Two lactose pills for me please!

After the late lunch, early diner we stopped by Costco and a WinCo and then headed home. 

Crystal sent us a picture of Gracie's feet. Suzie said she is tap dancing in the oven! LOL!

Baby Gracie!

God is Awesome as usual!

That's it for today, 

Love you all,

Brian and Patty