This is the river at Sutters Mill which provided power via a divers.ion channel. We visited there two days before Christmas 2008

This is a picture of the temple in Sacramento, California. We stopped to see it on our way to visit Sutters Mill in Coloma, two days before Christmas 2008.

Here we are in front of the replicate of the original Sutters Mill.

This is a better picture of the equipment used for the mining process.

The year (2008) we spent Christmas in California with Debra and Kent. We went north to Sutters Mill to see where the gold rush of '49 was started. We stopped in Sacramento on the way to see the temple. They have a very nice museum to commorate gold's discovery in California.
We also visited China Town in San Francisco and rode the cable cars up and down the hill. We stopped at Fisherman's Warf.
We went to Half Moon Bay to see the Tide Pools. The first visit was with the tide in. We saw a lot of seals on the beach. The second visit was with the tide out and we saw the pools with the varied forms of sea life.