Thursday, August 4, 2011

Thirsty?

Besides the capital building, there were two other sites to see in Sacramento, Ca. Both of them got the same clue.
Thirsty??
(which of course. . . we were!)

Our first site was located in a hotel right near the Capital building. We found a parking spot a ways away, then walked around the corner to the hotel. After we wandered the hotel for a while (which we didn't mind too much because it was nice and cool), we finally had to ask someone about our next site. And sadly we learned that it had been removed.

Apparently since bottled water became a hit, people don't use fountains much anymore so the hotel no longer found them necessary. Though I'm not sure if 9 fountains in a row were ever necessary!


Sadly, we were getting ready to leave the hotel when I realized that I needed some quick directions to our next exit. Now the hotel man thought we were really weird! We came in looking for a bunch of water fountains, which they no longer had, we then refused his kind offer of some free water bottles for our apparently thirsty little family, and then we ask him if he has ever heard of our next site, and how we were to get there. No- he had no clue what we were talking about, but he took the address and gave us the directions we needed. We thanked him prefusely. . . as he wished us luck finding our odd destination, and we headed out. And about 15 minutes later. . . we arrived!

Good ole Coke . . . didn't let us down!

4 comments:

Debi said...

Awesome adventures! I remember being at your house when we were little and you girls had received some stickers from Coke. Just a random memory! I am so happy Coke was reliable!

Bonnie said...

too bad it didnt come with a huge usable straw

Tate, Jody, Jocelyn, and Tyler said...

yeah, no free samples? what's up with that?
jody

Terry and Gail said...

Big replicas of little things are fascinating, aren't they. I think 9 water fountains are still necessary. Nice of the guy to offer you their replacement for the water fountains and to give you good directions. Love, Aunt Gail