We got back late last night from Yosemite National Park and we had such an awesome time! If you ever get the chance to go, do! The sights and views are breathtaking. Once again, like Crater Lake, it is impossible to convey in pictures exactly what we saw. A 2,425 foot waterfall just doesn't translate well to a 4x6 inch picture, strange huh? :-)
We went with our friends, the McClungs and Mills. It was perfect because we each have 1 boy and 1 girl and all the kids get along great (the adults too of course!). We saw and did so much, I'll try to do a brief summary...
- Wednesday - drove down, we set up camp at Yosemite Pines RV Resort, we were expecting cooler temps but it was HOT so we took a dip in the campground pool
- Thursday - spent most of the day at Yosemite National Park...ooh and awed at many gorgeous sights-some of them....Half-Dome, El Capitan, Yosemite Falls. The kids stripped down to their underwear and played in the creek, campfires and smores.
- Friday - hung around the campground, drove into the local town of Groveland, played baseball at the park, had lunch at the Iron Door Saloon and ice cream next door, swam again in the campground pool, took a hay ride to listen to local spooky stories around the campfire. Finished the night with an interesting discussion of cult religions and cult figures around our own campfire...nothing like talking about Heaven's Gate, Big Foot, and Lemurians, etc. before bed to bring on some interesting dreams/nightmares!
- Saturday - headed back to Yosemite National Park...hiked 2+ miles (with kids that's a feat!) towards the Tuolumne Grove of the Giant Sequoias and saw some BIG trees, plus one a car could drive through. Cruised through the park again and ooh and awed some more and grabbed some more ice cream for the ride back. On our way back to the campground we stopped at a cool place called the Rainbow Pools near Buck Meadows. The kids (and Alicia) took another dip. It seems to be a local hangout and was very crowded. Would have been the perfect place to spend the day...if we were the only ones there! We finished the day with movie night for the kids in our trailer and game night for the adults...started with a funny game of Apples to Apples and ended with what had to be the longest game of Uno ever!
- Sunday - packed up camp, headed home. Stopped in Stockton for lunch, thought we were just going into a pizza place, turned out it was the Disneyland of Chuck E. Cheeses! It was called John's Incredible Pizza Company and it was! Great food....all you can eat pizza (literally about 12 different types), pasta, salad, etc. And tons of fun games and rides. If we didn't stall enough on going home, we then stopped at Ikea in Sacramento and browsed and shopped for a couple more hours!
4 comments:
HOLY COW!!!!!! Talk about a massive amount of pictures!! I loved every single one - you got some fantastic shots! I love that you got some great pictures of every single person. I can't wait to get my CD! ;)
Hey it's only 200 pictures! LOL! That's only 28% of the pictures I actually have from the trip! It was hard to narrow them down!
Looks like another great trip! Loved the photos of "kids lined up in crevice", all the baseball ones, and the underwater one of Aaron + kids...great! Note to self: have to go back to Yosemite--been at least 10 years--so beautiful!
Such a great trip. The sights at Yosemite were unbelievable!! Can't wait to go back. I love that the kids had a great time playing with their friends!! Another great trip honey. I love you!!
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