"Underground" Tour of Sacramento

Mom came into town a couple of weeks ago and I decided that we would go and do some site seeing while she was here. She is always asking to go and do something fun in Sacramento, so I did some research and found an underground tour of the city. Many people are unaware that Sacramento was actually about 10-15 feet lower than it now sits. They had to raise the entire city because of flooding.

Here we are SUPER excited for the tour... At this point we are thinking "HARD HATS, AWESOME!!! This is going to be a great tour."

"UMMMMM... Does the baby need a hard hat for this CRAZY adventure? We don't want her to get hurt while we are scaling the undergound mines of the city" (We should have had a clue when I actually asked this question and the lady at the reception area actually started to laugh.

A this point we were still hopeful... You would have thought that the woman dressed in period clothing in and talking in a southern accent would have been our first clue.

Alright... not bad we get to see the oldest theater in California. That's pretty neat right? YES... This was the HIGHLIGHT of the tour.

"Okay... we are 90 minutes in. When are we going to go and see the underground city, and the Chinese opium dens, and the underground gambling rings....etc etc etc? Ummm... your not telling me that the basement we went into was the "underground" part!?!

What a rip off... there was a wheel chair ramp and an elevator. That wasn't even a dingy basement... it was finished. ARGH. If I had known that was the "underground" part of the tour I would have at least taken a photo of it - and why is that lady still acting like she is from the South"

Even the baby was bored to tears.

And this was the BEST part of the tour... an awesome lunch and an even better Margarita!