October 8

Yesterday we left Santa Rosa for our long drive to Sacramento with a stop at the Jelly Belly.

 It was a lot of fun seeing how they make Jelly Beans of every kind.

 A few of our guest have already went thru the tour and enjoying a Jelly Belly lunch.

 This is President Reagan's favorite place, he got all of his Jelly Beans from here.

One of our guest is sitting with Cyndy just before we start the tour.  We could not take any pictures during the tour so I couldn't get any pictures of them making there world famous Jelly Belly's.  It was a great tour and we were off to our Campground at Sac West in Sacramento.
Today we went on a bus tour of Historic Old Sacramento, Tour State Capitol and Rose Garden, Rose Garden and our final stop is the Discovery Museum.  It was a busy day with a lot of history of the area.

 This was a statue of the pony express that help settle this area.  There are a lot of building that they have restored her in the Old Town of Sacramento.

 Our next stop was the Capital building.

 They say this bear has more viris on it then anything in the capital building, with the hundreds of kids that come by and touch it every day.  You can't see it but just down from Joe is a hand-sanitizer on the wall. This was giving by a pass governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a gift to the state.  After a short walk we were in the Rose garden.

 This is for all the Fire Fights here in California.

 This next memorial really hits home. it list all of the solders that lost their lives in Vietnam  conflicted.  I think the pictures say everything.

 Our next stop was back to Old town for lunch and the Railroad History Museum.

 Everyone is heading toward the Railroad History Museum.

 They have one of the biggest displays of trains I have ever seen.

 This is one of two of the biggest trains ever built, the picture below shows how big each of the wheels are.

This is one of the biggest trains ever built.

 Cyncy is standing by one of the wheels to show you the mass of this machine.

We were here for 2 hours it it still was not enough time to see everything and explore all of the cars.

Look at the weight of this machine over 1,051,000 LBS.
From here we went to the Discovery Museum to learn about the the history of Old Town.

 It was neattour but would of liked more time at the last one.

Tomorrow is a free day for the guest and we can get somethings done that need looking at.  We have added 2 more rigs to our group here, and we are currently at 23 rigs and having a great time.

October 6

What a day we had today, we left the campground at 8:45 AM for the Napa Vine Wine Train.  It took us just over and hour to get to the train station.  We had to wait around in this really nice Train Depot.

 There was a small gift shop here, but I looked inside of it and there was alot of wine and some of the prices is out of my Strawberry Hill wine list.  I seen one bottle that had a price of over $200.00 and I figured it was time to go back to the lobby.

 There were a lot of these figuring around the station, but when I tried to pick one up it weight a lot so those were out, don't need any more weight in the coach.

This is what the front of the train looked like. and here is the car we rode in.

 We were the last ones into the car.

 As you can see this is a real great view, and we are on the Champagne Vista Dome Lunch car.

 Here is what we got to have for our lunch today.

Hors D'Oeuvre

Flourless Yam Ravioli

stuffed with house smoked goat cheese

and topped with grape relish

 or

 Grilled Shrimp

on crispy wonton with sweet pea pesto and endive

First Course

Red and Green Apple Endive Salad

with camozola cheese, hazelnuts and mustard vinaigrette

or

Soup du Jour

Entree Choices

Roasted Beef Tenderlion

on a melange of potatoes with stewed garlic and grilled zucchini

in a Cabernet reduction topped with red onion marmalade

Almond Encrusted Salmon Piccata

with lemon sauteed potatoes and red wine carrots

Mustard Rubbed Pork Tenderloin

with sweet and savory potato saute

topped with blue cheese chips and grape sauce

Grilled Polenta

topped with gorgonzola on grilled and sauteed summer vegetables

in a seared Tomato-herb coulis

Desserts

were out of this world!!!

THis was a meal of a life time, everyone thought it was great and the staff was super that were taking care of us.  Here are a few more pictures of our group.

I was to busy to get up and take pictures during lunch eating.
Here are some of the sights along the train ride threw Napa Valley.

 There were a lot of vineyards that we went by, but the houses that were in some of these were great.

 We had a great time and ride was great.  Tomorrow we head towards Sacramento with a stop at Jelly Belly Candy Company, I am looking forward to this stop.