Thursday, September 29, 2011

Sunday in Sacramento

We headed up to Sacramento last Sunday to visit Steve's parents, for our usual monthly visit. They met us at the wonderful Tower Cafe for brunch. They are known for their French Toast and I also really like their Eggs Benedict (called the "Egg Tower").



After our meal, Steve's mom Carolyn treated Steve and me to an activity perfectly suited to us: a tour of half a dozen remodeled homes in East Sacramento. The tour was run by Friends of East Sacramento and benefited the local parks. We absolutely loved it. We didn't take a lot of pictures, but here are a couple highlights.

Fabulous inlaid floor detail in a beautiful craftsman-style bungalow:

Amazing park-like backyard of one of the homes (the pictures don't quite do it justice):



Amusing yard tool storage area:

It certainly did our house envy no favors (especially since a run-down home on the same block as the beautiful Craftsman-style bungalow was only $300k and looked like an ideal project house... sigh...) but it was still a great time. We are hoping to go back for the Christmas decoration home tour in December.

1 comment:

Jack said...

I tried to go to the Tower Cafe the last time I was in Sacramento! There was a long wait, so other members of my family gave up on the venture. I still haven't forgiven them.