Just for the record: I'm an architect! And now, I shall attempt to catch up with all the posts I meant to do this summer, but didn't, because I was too busy working on becoming an architect. This summer I had the great pleasure of attending the weddings of two friends, in Sacramento and Seattle, and a Weird Al concert in Los Angeles. These short trips gave me the chance to see more of the cities of the West Coast. While I had been to Seattle before, it was back in 2007, and I didn't spend that much time in the city. I'd never been to Sacramento, and in LA, we only went to places I hadn't been before. Many adventures were had! Sacramento Our fair state's capitol has a distinct downtown, surrounded by miles of sprawl. In downtown we were pleased to find a silly hipster vegetarian restaurant for lunch, called Mother . We had chicken-fried mushrooms (amazing) and some other tasty things. We spent some time walking through the downtown...
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