The Markeroni Blog

It’s Saturday, 31st January 2009, and we’ve planned to go to the California State Capitol. But first, after meeting in our Coffee Shop of Choice, we explore the City Plaza with its lovely monuments and buildings.

This morning we are joined by Avanta, who isn’t a Markeroon, but came down because (a) she’d never been inside the Capitol and (b) is a good friend of TCM and AmberLee.

Look at all those Markeroons!

And all those mascots! (This is a monument to Joe Serna, civic leader in Stockton, California.)

We then proceeded to the gold-capped Capitol building. Dozens of monuments are in its grounds, so you could easily spend a day snarfing in that area.

The state plaque is outside the structure, set into the pavement. This time we managed four mascots.

Much photography was performed. (That’s Avanta in the background, and beautyredefined in the foreground.)

The best way to get a photograph of this:

is to do this:

After admiring the glorious architecture of the main entrance, one of the most fun parts for me was the displays that showed the 58 different counties of California. Here’s Trinity County, the home of Markeroni and one of the two most remote counties in the state:

There were portraits of all the governors to be found somewhere in the building, as well as museum exhibits showing offices as they were back in the day. You could also visit the state house and state senate. It was Saturday, so nobody was in session, but we did notice that the senate had bigger laptops than the house. ;)