Bidwell Mansion

 Me and my little buddy had so much fun hanging out while she was here, she left today :(  But while she was here we went and did a lot of fun things!  One of which was Bidwell Mansion.  It was SUPER AWESOME!  Bidwell Mansion is where John and Annie Bidwell lived many years ago.  They settled the town of Chico and named a lot of the roads here.  They were very well known and had a lot of land and TONS of orchards.  It was interesting to learn about their story.  John was 46 and Annie was 26 when they got married.  And he was 6 foot 1 inch tall and she was 4 foot 8 inches.........quite the difference!  And they actually wrote letters back and forth for a year and a half before they were married.  She was a very strong Presbyterian and he had no religion at all.  After their letters back and forth, John was willing to do anything to win Annie over, so he changed his ways.  She had told him "NO" when he asked her to marry him the first time, but after he changed after that long period of time, she told him that he needed to ask her again, and then she said, "YES"!  There were a lot of things that we got to learn about the Bidwells and the history here! Supper Fun!

 Cass is standing by Annie's square grand piano that John bought for her for her wedding present.  It took all the modes of transportation available at that time, (boat, train, horse and wagon) to get it from New York, and here to Chico. 

 This was the room across from the office, I loved the flags hanging!

 This was us, trying to be in the mirror without the camera showing :)

 This was Annie's wedding dress.  She was sooooo tiny! And very short!

 One of the first indoor toilets! It was called the elephant toilet because it looks like an elephant head.

 This was the guest room.  Many respected people and people with high status where friends of the Bidwell's and stayed here.  There were so many fireplaces throughout the house, three of which were in bedrooms. 

 This was John and Annie's room.  That bed is AWESOME!!! I love it!  Never seen anything like it! The room was so huge that I could'nt get it all in the picture.  I loved the vanity/fireplace/and armoire in the room as well!

 Another view of the mansion.

These were the buggies out in the barns for display.  This was such a fun day that Cass and I had, and very neat to learn an awesome piece of history about this place!