The Blacks Blog: Our California Vacation

The Blacks are back from vacation!

Genevieve had to go over to Folsom, CA on Intel business for a few days so we decided to make this into a family vacation trip. We all had a great 10days over in California and manage to cram in far to many things to mention here in one short blog post.

Some of the highlights included:

Getting to visit family (Grandma (several times!) and Todd & Dee)
Day trip to San Francisco (WOW....way cool, to many things to list)
Going on a WWII amphibious vehicle tour of San Francisco (Cameron even got to drive it)
Visiting the Jelly Belly jelly bean factory (no other comment needed except yummy)
Swimming in the American River (beautiful but cold water)
Going to Fairytale Land in Sacramento (Mackenzie loved it)
Folsom Zoo Sancuary visit (cute little zoo where all the animals were rescued from labs, horrible owners/breeders etc)
Snooks Candy Store visit in Old Folsom (handmade chocolates to die for!)
California Railroad Museum (tons to see and do, Cameron loved seeing all the fancy sleeping cars but Mac was disappointed that the trains did not have a swimming pool, LOL)
Wandering round Old Sacramento (visiting cool old stores and eating too much saltwater taffy!)
Going swimming almost every day (I think Cameron and Mackenzie are almost part fish by now!)
Cameron jumping off a 12 ft springboard at Folsom Aquatic Center (Go Cam!)
Eating at ton of great places (the 7lb weight gain I made on the trip will be testament to this)
etc
etc

Just too many things to go on about to be honest.

I think one of my longest lasting memories of the trip will also be one of the simplest ones. Every time we returned to our hotel room and opened the door Mackenzie walked in and said "Mmmmm, nice. I like it". i.e. basically mimicking Genevieve's comment that she made when we arrived on the first day.

Below I have added a slide show with a load of pics from our vacation which you can watch. You can also view the pics separately and download them by clicking on the photo of Mac in the plane ready for the trip