Rancho Camulos

 Rancho Camulos is one of those historic landmarks we've passed a million times on our way to Fillmore, always thinking that "someday" we'd make a visit.

On a free Saturday for us, the piece of Californian history was holding an open day, with lots of activities for the children.

The girls flattened out the mixture used to make homemade tortillas.

 They washed and wrung out clothes the old-fashioned way...

 ...made adobe bricks...

... and Cora tried her hand at lassoing a mock cow.

The beautiful rancho was owned by one of early California's large landowners, and was the setting for "Ramona," a book that was made into a silent film a hundred years ago.

It was a very nice half-day out together, and nice and close to home.