What I Did On My Summer Vacation, By Chris McLaren, Age 36

I’ve been away from the Internet, and this blog specifically, a bit lately, and so I thought I’d give you a little photographic taste of what I’ve been up to. (Click on through if you’re interested.)

So, we went here for a day:

Yeah, Disneyland.

Sarah’s favourite part of that day was this:

Meeting Snow White

Then we went down to San Diego and spent a day at the zoo. This included some petting of bunnies:

Posing with bunny

And some eating of lunch near elephants:

Note the elephants in the background

Sarah also took a staring role in an educational program at the zoo:

No shyness present

We then spent three days driving up the coast on the PCH. This included a night in Santa Barbara, where we ran into a festival at the mission:

Party @ The Mission

It also included a trip through some hilly bits:

Up high in California

There was a lot of beautiful coast, of course. It looked like this: Big Sur Coast

We spent a night at a lovely inn in Big Sur, where we could relax sitting in a river out back:

Big Sur River

Then it was up the coast to Monterey, where Trish shopped and Sarah and I did the Aquarium:

Monterey Aquarium Touch Tank

The California part of the vacation ended with a couple of days in San Francisco, including, of course, a trip to Alcatraz:

Alcatraz

We also did some hiking in the Muir woods, taking in the coastal redwoods and sequoias:

Girls in a tree

While there I dragged the girls to a couple of bookstores (would have been more, but our days were very full). One was very close to San Francisco’s garlic restaurant, which I forced the girls into.

Yuuuummmmmmmmmmm

By the end of the meal, they were converted, and happily sharing a sundae:

Ice cream can sell anything

After California we were off to visit family and friends in Ontario. This included a big family picnic at the park at Queenston Heights, and then Sarah and I having some adventures with my pal Ralph.

For instance, we drove up to Toronto to go in this thing:

The CN Tower

While we were in there we checked out the glass floor, where you can stand and look down over 1500 feet. Here you see me almost stepping on:

Yikes

Sarah and Ralph had no problem walking around on it:

Sarah and Ralph on glass floor

I was actually much more comfortable looking out over the lake. Sarah also seemed to like that:

She thinks that's a smile

The next day we spent in Niagara, first visiting the Falls:

Sarah, Ralph, Falls

…and then going under them:

Little girl, big falls

After the falls we spent some time at cheesy tourist attractions on Clifton Hill, including the Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Museum:

Sarah seems smaller than the world's tallest man

Then a haunted house, and finally the Butterfly Conservatory:

One of the approximately 1000000000 butterflies in the conservatory

Of course there was a lot more, but that should give you a taste.

Now I’m home for all of three days, and then it’s off to Melbourne.

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