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Monday, May 11, 2009

Sutter's Fort

April 30
When we were at Fairy Tale Town, I got the garmin back out to tell us how to go home and it said something about Sutter's Fort. I thought it might be interesting, but had no idea about it.
We could not go earlier in the week, the only day we could go was on Thursday. This turned out to be the very best. They had several school groups there and they also had re-enactors mulling around, baking bread, demonstrating how to make rope. It was all wonderful. Had we gone earlier in the week as originally planned, we would have missed this!
The Fort put on a cannon demonstration for all the kids, they narrated how to load the cannon and proceeded to fire it off! How cool is that?






Do you think they know this is going to be loud?
Yep, it was loud. Everyone cheered.

Behind the fort was this lovely fountain, as we wondered around the pond we found out the building I thought was a house turned out to be the California Museum of Native Americans. They had some very interesting artifacts from the area, but no photographs allowed.

The back of the fort. We had a great time at the fort, we are glad we went. Lon found a very old nail on the ground. He wanted to turn in it, so we did. They thought that was very nice of the little guy.

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