Spring Break in a nutshell

I'm back and I still have all my toes! We had such a wonderful time. I can't wait to go back. Here are some cool pictures I wanted to share.

Our cabin was fantastic!...

The drive into Yosemite Valley had beautiful views...

If you enter the park from the South entrance you go through a tunnel and when you exit this view just takes your breath away...

The valley was incredible and the waterfalls were in full force. I don't have any great waterfall pictures to share because I didn't really get close to any. (There was a tragedy in my family involving a small child and a waterfall not too many years ago so it's still hard to be up close looking at them) But they aren't too shabby from a distance...

 

The kiddo was really excited to see the famous climbing spot (and largest granite monolith in the world), El Capitan...

And Half Dome...

I can't believe people go up that thing. Look here to see what it takes. I'm way too lazy and scared to do something like that!

Here are just a few random shots in the valley.

This frozen stream hadn't quite melted...

This deer thought it was just another tourist like the rest of us...

I must have really liked this particular area because when I transferred all the pictures to my laptop I noticed I had taken 6 of this same thing at different times...

The water here was sooo cold from the snow melt coming down over the waterfall...

But it didn't stop two French tourists from stripping down to their man panties and walking across it. The guy on shore had just gotten out...

I spared you the shot that that their friend was going to be getting any second. I like you guys way too much for that.

We had a great time and look forward to going back. And the photo opps didn't stop once we hit the road to come back home. As we were driving South through L.A we spotted a sweet van which we completely expected Uncle Rico to be driving. To make the sweet van even sweeter.. it had 'Ram Van' painted on the side. I just imagined the guy (you know it was a guy) who went to the dealership 30 years ago to buy that beauty and said.. "now make sure it has the gold ladder and luggage rack!"...

And as we pulled into our driveway I was happy to have a weeks worth of fabulous memories and pictures.. and I was especially happy that I don't drive a car that makes someone feel the need to take a picture of it for their blog.

Comments

[Jerry]

The Van probably came from Pete Ellis Dodge because he was the king of the van conversions back in the 70's. I bet it had the shag carpet and mirrored ceiling too.

The pictures of the park are so beautiful, I haven't been in 10 years or so.

[Cayli]

Pictures are great and the cabin looks really nice. I really like the shot of Frenchie on the shore. The water was COLD?! You sure?

The van brings back tons of memories of all those really bad vans with eagles on the side in red, white and blue and of course beads in the back.

Glad you had a great time!

[Gaby]

Beautiful sites, but I selfishly admit- I'm so happy your home!