We’re taking off this morning to start our vacation this year. The kids have the week off from school, and I took the week off from work also. We are leaving this morning @ 7:00 AM and driving all over in California. I am going to write in this blog each day telling about what we did and publish it with some of our pictures throughout the week. To start the day, we are going to be driving to Yosemite National Park. None of us have been there before (at least that we can remember – I may have been there as a kid) so this will be a lot of fun. We stayed in a town called Mariposa – about an hour outside the park. There are a lot of cool sights in the park – lots of waterfalls! We had a blast here.