Yo Yo Yosemite!

After Lake Tahoe we went back to Folsom to enjoy some down time with the family. We ate out, watched the Thunder, and generally just relaxed until Thursday. On Thursday all 5 of us headed to Yosemite for the weekend. The winding roads up the mountain were crazy and scary. No guard rails, up a mountain with hairpin turns. It was kind of crazy. We started out and this is what our backseat looked like. That lasted about 20 minutes before Jamie threw up all over the back seat. No more ipads in the car after that!

 Yosemite was definitely worth it though. It was stunningly beautiful! We drove into the park and hit up 3 small hikes that first day. The first one was basically a boulder scramble. We didn't know if we were on the trail or not but we just scrambled up the rocks towards the sound of the waterfall. It was one of my favorite hikes but also one of the more nerve wrecking hikes with two 8 year olds wanting to climb on everything and being so close to water.

This was most of the hike. Huge boulders to scramble over. I loved it!

Can you see the rock climbers in this picture? They were climbing that rock face with the river flowing below them. It was pretty awesome!

After that first hike we drove further into Yosemite to visit the visitor's center and hike the lower Yosemite Falls hike. It was all paved and a very easy hike which was perfect for the first day.

This is El Cap. It's a famous rock face that climbers climb. This is NOT what Derrick and I climbed. Maybe one day :)

Yosemite Falls!

Stunning right?

How is this place real?

The final hike of the day was a bridal veil hike. Apparently there are a lot of Bridal Veils throughout the US. We had a very close encounter with a deer. Did you know that more people get injured in Yosemite by deer than any other animal? They come up for food and if you feed them and then run out of food, they will punch you in the face! What????

On our way out of the park for the day we stopped at this vista point. Seriously...how can this be real? Doesn't it just look like a painting?

The next day was rock climbing but that's a whole other post!! If Yosemite isn't on your bucket list yet these pictures should have convinced you by now.