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Last January Event
DELTA TOUR
Levy Mystery Tour, Ryde Hotel, Cal Auto Museum, Delta King Riverboat!
Our first event of the year was no disappointment. The President’s Mystery Event was attended by 24 members (but only 8 Thunderbirds). This was the only sunny day in weeks and the assumption that the event day would be no different caused some owners to leave their birds at the nest. Cars were evenly divided, 4 Retrobirds and 4 Earlybirds. The Earlybirds that did attend  were coincidently all red! First time a mono-color has occurred in a long time. Dave was certainly brave in scheduling an outdoor touring event in January where the chance of rain is forever eminent and this year in particular we have seen precious few dry days so far. But that didn’t frighten Dave. He won the weather lotto. The clear skies and sunshine in the photo below were not digitally enhanced but the real thing. Maybe our outing should have been a trip to Reno instead!
The event started as many do at the Bagel Street Café in Danville. The size of our group filled up most of the seats with many left still standing. Even though sunny, the 49°F morning temperature didn’t persuade anyone to migrate out to the café’s outside deck area as we often do.
 Our first stop was the historic Ryde Hotel which was built in 1929 at the peak of the prohibition era. The lower level was a speakeasy, offering bootleg whiskey and jazz to a clientele in search of a good time. After our brief stop at the Ryde, we were off again on our levy journey toward the California Auto Museum.
We arrived at the museum around 12:00 PM and looked at the cars that were there. Unfortunately it isn't the same as when it was the Towe Museum a few years ago which housed mostly Fords. The museum now displays vehicles of which approximately 25% are currently owned by the California Vehicle Foundation and the rest are displayed by private exhibitors. Unfortunately it was as cold inside as it  was outside (about 53°F). Had the temperature been a bit more agreeable, we probably would have stayed a bit longer and gotten our monies worth out of our $8.00 dollar per person admission fee.
Around 1:15 PM we got back in our birds for the short drive to the Delta King Paddlewheeler permanently docked at Old Town Sacramento. The Delta King is an authentic, historic and permanently moored 285-foot riverboat on the Sacramento River in Downtown Old Sacramento. We were given our own section in the “Pilothouse Dining Room” where we were allowed to order off the menu. The food was good, although pricey. Overall service was good, especially given the size of our group and given free reign of the menu. No doubt we will make the trip again to the Delta King for a future event.
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