I'm back in Cali again... *sigh* My trip to the Philippines had officially ended. I am now already up and about at 6:15am rummaging my stuff unpacking and packing again. We are heading to Sacramento today and to New York on Monday. I can now say that this year is the coolest year ever coz Idid a lot of traveling woohhoo!We drove to Sacramento for almost 9hrs., stopping by Fresno to eat lunch at McDonalds. The hotel we stayed in, Holiday Inn Sacramento Capitol-Plaza, was awesome. It was situated at the heart of the city and just about every tourist attractions were accessible by foot.
Our first stop was the the California State Capitol Building. It was nothing but a building really, it was just that the white towering facade of this can really capture your sight with awe. You'll never miss it because it's a trademark seen in millions of postcards sold all over the world. Then we went to Old Town Sacramento, it's not literally old as how it was called but the place was patterned to that of the western era where you see in movies, two men drawing guns face to face kind of pattern hehe. Souvenir shops and restaurants flood the area. At the back of these area is the Sacramento River. There's a boardwalk in going there where cruise boats servicing one hour trips around the river can be located. Of course we rode one of the one-hour cruise they have. It was refreshing. The scenery was absolutely gorgeous, lots of greeneries around, yachts everywhere, and river houses like that in the movies, where the houses have their own dock port for their boats (Dawson's creek style). Simply pleasing to the eye! Im such a sucker for these atmospheres and now here I am actually seeing it with my own eyes.
That's probably why most middle aged-retiree Americans would want to live in Sacramento, it's laid-back and peaceful.
The next day, we ate the complimentary buffet breakfast served at the hotel restaurant and then went to Our Lady of the Blessed Sacrament Church to hear mass. This particular church was also one of the tourist attractions in Sacramento, actually the church personnels there offer guided tours around and about the church. After mass at 11:30am, we went back to the hotel to check out our stuff. Our final place of visit was the Governor's Mansion, this is where the California governors have lived when they're on duty. It's nothing spectacular inside, just a run down of the past governors of California and the history behind their responsibilities and what they did for the state.
We headed home back to San Bernardino where I have to unpack and pack up again for New York in the morning. Tired yet loving it.
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