Mermaid Parade

Never to let something out of the ordinary to go unnoticed, we headed to the 2nd Annual Mermaid & Pirate Parade in Old Sac.  What? Never heard of it? Neither did we. And neither did many others, because there were not very many of us there to watch it.  And the entire parade was about 10 minutes long.  They don’t even close the road for the parade – they just walk down the side of the road. But, it’s only the 2nd year. Each year bigger and better, right?

Maybe you can come next year for the 3rd Annual.  It celebrates the start of summer.  Legend has it that the mermaids and pirates come out of the Sacramento River and parade down Old Sac in celebration of the warmer weather.

It was quite, uh, interesting!

 

 

 

 

Of course, since we were in Old Sac, we had to go to Candy Heaven, where remember, you can eat for free out of certain barrels as long as you stay in the store.  They were also handing out free chocolate covered crickets, but nobody in our family took up that challenge.

We also stopped in a the Old River City Saloon, where before 9pm, kids can go in and we all enjoyed eating peanuts and throwing the shells on the floor and 25 cent yummy sarsaparilla's!  Yum!

We had fun with the mermaids and walking around looking at the shops.

 

 

 

Fairy Falls

We’ve already been to the Fairy Festival, (Remember? Go HERE if you forgot!), so we decided to try Fairy Falls.  We actually tried to go there a few weeks ago, but got lost, even with two GPS phones and a crude map. You see, Fairy Falls are in a remote area, where the roads don’t even show up on GPS maps, and when they do, the names on the GPS are different than the names on the map, and the actual road signs have two different names for each road.

This time, we went prepared with multiple maps and we were determined to find it!  Oh yeah, and the last 7-8 miles are on a dirt gravel road with no names or signs. The area is actually known as Spenceville, but there isn’t any town there.  Or houses. Or cell phone service.  Nobody got any text messages during our hike!

We found it this time!  Drove right straight to it!  These falls aren’t the biggest (only about 6 stories) but they run year round and the hike is a FAIRY (get it? Instead of fairly?) easy 2 mile hike each way. 

It was beautiful!  Breezy day, not too hot and everything is still green.  It was a relaxing hike and the cows even made it more relaxing and we let our stresses get blown away with the breeze!

Hike starts here! Don’t forget your gun so you can shoot out the sign