Travelog post for: DuDette

Hi DuDu and Mom and Aslan and Bowtie Bear!

We have a new visitor, a giraffe with beautiful shimmery colors.  Zarafeh is happy to meet her, too.  Her name is Sapphire.  She arrived just as we were going out the door to the Sacramento River.  Not the American River, where Hypno-dog and HolgiHH went for a walk. 

Before going to the river, we visited with Miss Kate's friend and her monstrously big dogs (Miss Kate calls them the Brindle Babes. ).  She had beautiful flowers and a reminder that I WAS THERE.   

Miss Kate says that Sacramento is called River City because it has a lot of rivers.  Is San Francisco called Ocean-Bay City?

When we got home, Miss Kate told us our day wasn't over.  We were going to see the Alvin Ailey dancers in Davis.  Wow, nice pictures online.  The men especially look so handsome in their yellow vests.  I wonder how DuDu would look in a yellow vest.  Miss Kate told us that the dance we're going to see, Revelations, is 50 years old.  She said that's a long time.  We read online that "more people have seen Revelations than any other modern dance work, and it has been enjoyed by over 23 million people in 71 countries across six continents."  Wow!  I would like to visit 71 countries, too!  Would you care to join me, DuDu?

In the evening, we got dressed up and went to the Mondavi Center.  It's at University of California at Davis and is very fancy.  Have you heard of it, Mom?  Miss Kate heard of it but had never been there.  We got there a little late, had with us Miss Kate's friend who is disabled and were in such a hurry that we parked in the Vice Chancellor's spot.  We hoped that if the Vice Chancellor came later, he would park in the Chancellor's parking spot, which was still empty. 

We had a special seat in the orchestra box, which gave us a little privacy to take a quick picture, very verboten, but you can see the blue curtains behind me and the man introducing the wonderful, fabulous dancers.  All 4 of us had a great time!

Love,
DuDette