Our California Spring Break

For Spring Break this year we decided we were ready for Yosemite National Park. The park was as awe inspiring as others had told us. There is so much beauty surrounding you it is almost impossible to take it all in. Here are a few of the highlights from our trip.

We made it to San Francisco. With only an afternoon, we did a quick tour of the sights of the city from the wharf (including the sea lions) to Chinatown and The Financial District.

Emma at peace hiking in the redwoods.

After hiking through the Muir Redwoods to the Pacific, the kids were spent. It was time for a picnic and nap.

 The view of The Golden Gate Bridge from The Headlands.

The Golden Gate

Next we drove to Yosemite......

Our first sight of El Capitan

Our first sight of Half Dome

Our views of the valley

"First, let me take a selfie, said Jacob and the deer.

We saw a lynx.

So happy that The Glacier Point Road has opened a month early!

Trying to befriend Elle

Grandma & Papa met us at The Tunnel View Lookout

Hiking at The Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias

Big Trees!

Such a little seed grows in to such a large tree

 

Hiking the Mist Trail to Vernal and Nevada Falls

Wet from the mist

Resting before hiking to the second waterfall

At the top of Nevada Falls

Saying goodbye to Yosemite at the Arch Entrance

Goodbye Yosemite.
(Yes, that is a deer posing in the background.)