When the word got round that the California aqueduct had been completed and would soon be carrying water from the Sacramento Delta to Los Angeles, the Adroushans drove out to see this great feat of engineering. They took a picnic basket along, and ate lunch from the tailgate of their family wagon. Armen and Cindy listened to their father hold forth on the wonders of this great canal that carried life-giving water from Northern California down into the sink, over the Range, and into the desert beyond.