August 23, 2005

So it was two weeks Sunday when we rolled into Sac-town. Our apartment is on the north side of Sacramento in a VERY coomercial area. If your from the Ville you can compare it to Dixie Highway, or maybe Preston. If we head east from our house we hit the high end shopping mall, the Starbucks, and the luxury car dealerships. If we head west we past several gentleman's clubs, liquor stores, and usually at least on homeless person. The area ain't so bad though. We're 3 blocks from the school that Jennifer and I both attend, there's a Target a block away, and we have easy access to the I-80 Freeway without much hassle. We're pretty sure that we'll look for another, most likely bigger apartment in the near future. An extra room would be ideal for an office and extra storage.

We took our first area field trip to Davis, California last Saturday. Davis was a welcome change from the urban setting that we've become accustomed to here in Sac-town. UC-Davis takes up most of the town, which itself appeared to be little more than several blocks of trendy student-oriented shops and small businesses surrounded by and intertwined with university. There were lots of trees, several parks, and lots of common areas for students and community residence to socialize. We can't wait to get there in a year. It's MUCH more our style.

Our second field trip was to downtown Sacramento. We dodged the light-rail train rolling through the streets, drove by the domed Capitol building whose perimeter streets are lined with giant palms (no sign of our Governator) , then traveled north up J Street to "Mid-Town". Our impression was that Mid-Town was the hip area of town, promising unique restaurants and a Bardstown Road type atmosphere. I dunno if Sacramento just has a late starting night life or what, but we spent several hours in Mid-Town and at 8pm the streets and most of the restaurants were pretty scarce of people. Perhaps when class fires up at CSUS (California State University - Sacramento) more will be going on. I left the area relatively unimpressed. I guess we'll figure out where the cool kids hang soon enough.