Ladies On The Loose

It didn't go exactly as planned.  Tinka and I had made a blue print for our outing with Kit:  we would meet in Mt. Aukum, go into Placerville, have lunch at one of the better Chinese restaurants, then visit the Placerville History Museum.  That was the plan.  We got to the restaurant, only to find that it would be closed from June 1 to July 1, and what was yesterday?  June 1.  Boogers!  Having our mouths set for Chinese food, I suggested another place I'd been to years before, and it was only a little backtrack to get there (there are a few other places, but completely away from the museum).  Traffic was really heavy in town, and Tinka, who was driving, and I agreed that driving in what we who live in the boonies call heavy traffic is no fun.  Kit, who lives in southern CA, probably considered it light to normal.  We got to the second restaurant, only to find it was now an empty building.  I wonder when it had gone out of business.  Thwarted, we decided to go to some place, any place, to get lunch and ended up at Denny's.  It was filling, but when you have your mouth set on a particular food, nothing else is really satisfactory.

The museum is a fun, interesting place to visit, full of memorabilia from bygone eras, including wagons made in gold rush days by Studebaker, who we think of as a car maker now.  There are docents who would explain the displays, but we declined and just wandered through the exhibits, inside and out.  Tinka and I are old enough to have had parents and grandparents who were in WWI and beyond, and reminisced about them.  Kit's dad was a pilot in WWII. We spent several well-spent hours looking and talking.  (We do a lot of talking.)

When we finally got back to Mt. Aukum, we all agreed it had been a great day, but we were still hungry for Chinese food.  Sigh.