The Rest of Our Family Vacation- Aug 2009

I'm just a tad slow on this post.....but I still wanted to do it. After we spent a few days in Lake Tahoe, we headed to Yosemite National Park. It was quite the drive, lots of turns and curves and well you can only imagine what happened. We were glad we were prepared with ziplocks. Once we finally got there... we had a good time. So many hikes to choose from.

We hiked to Vernal Falls, 2 miles up and 2 back. We also hiked to the base of Yosemite falls, only 1/2 mile there and then 1/2 back.

It is so beautiful there... how could anyone question that there is a God.

Amazing scenery and my cute family.

I love the grins...we made it!

The boys loved climbing all the rocks. I think this is better than any playground.

It was so fun to see these deer, they let us get so close. Tyler loved taking this picture, he didn't even have to zoom in.

Mark and I sitting in front of one of the Sequoias in the grove.

Tyler found this pine cone that he thought looked like a phone. He told me to take a picture because this might be as close as he will ever get to owning his own cell phone.

This was my favorite Sequoia. It was just fun to walk through a tree. Most of the tourist(which it seemed like a million) only went to this point of the hike. For some crazy reason we thought it wasn't going to be that long or hard to continue on to the Mariposa grove and the famous fallen tunnel tree.

This is the Oldest Sequoia. It was around during the life of Christ. Pretty cool!

Gigantic tree, makes you feel pretty small!

The Famous Fallen Tunnel Tree. This is the one that people use to be able to drive through. Wow! Glad we did the hike, but boy it was hard. It was at least 4 miles hiking up to this point. 8 miles round trip. Our kids were troopers! They were so tired and so hungry, we all were, but we made it!!! It was a great once in a lifetime experience!