Next stop…Sacramento Zoo.<\/a>\u00a0 A nice, little, perfectly manageable for a half day trip. They have a great reptile house, with quite a few I have never seen. \u00a0I love this frog. The tiger exhibit had a ledge with a glass window. \u00a0Mama and son were resting on the ledge. \u00a0This picture does not do it justice, but I loved the pattern on mama’s back… <\/a> Last stop. \u00a0Sunset magazine recently had an article on a Sacramento landmark. \u00a0They are celebrating their 50th year in business. \u00a0The article stated that Osaka-Ya<\/a> has lines wrapping around the block during the summer for their snow cones. \u00a0They \u00a0are so popular they even have their own service window dedicated to the snow cones, so customers don’t clog up the small Japanese grocery store. \u00a0I knew the boys would be totally into this for dessert. It was a fun, fun, day!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It’s days like these that I feel so grateful to homeschool. \u00a0The days where fun and learning occur simultaneously. My friend, Grace, and I, took our boys to spend the day in Sacramento. \u00a0Since she is from there, Grace had a few fun spots up her sleeve. \u00a0I, however, was able to provide our finale, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thisnthat"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788616"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788616\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788641,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788616\/revisions\/788641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"IMG_3700\"](\"http:\/\/www.centerdeep2.com\/riverbendprep\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/IMG_3700-300x225.jpg\")
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\nBreakfast!
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\nHangin’ with da gator…
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\n<\/a>…and the roos…
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\n‘R’ took this picture. \u00a0He’s pretty amused by it.
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\nThe gift shop sold ‘Salt and Vinegar Crickets’. \u00a0Not one to shy away from a new culinary venture, ‘A’ asked me to buy some. \u00a0Except for the prickly legs, he thought they were terrific! (I tried one. \u00a0It reminded me of ‘Bugles’). \u00a0‘R’ wanted nothing to do with it.
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\nLunch time. An adorable vintage shop\/cafe, with a charming back patio for dining. Bow and Arrows.<\/a>
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\nImagine my surprise when upon entering the store, ‘R’ shrieked, “MOCHI<\/a>“!! \u00a0This little grocery has a wide variety of homemade mochi. \u00a0I gave the boys an option, and they all chose mochi over snow cones. \u00a0(They were pretty yummy…)
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