Yosemite

Yosemite was really fun! Nate and I were able to get one hike out of Wayne LOL WE climbed up to a little waterfall first....a lot of the water is gone now because it is the dry season (most of the snow is gone) so we were able to get really close to the first fall and even found our very own! Next we hiked to the top of Vernal falls~without water...I knew it was a bad idea but we really had no idea what we were getting into. It took every minute of the 3 hours that they say it will. First you are going up inclined pavement which burns HAHA then it gets worse...uneven inclined ground followed by the craziest stairs ever, jagged, covered in sand, uneven and STEEP! You'll see that there are no pictures from this part of the jouney because we had to focus on picking up our feet.

When we got close to the waterfall, it was awesome! So incredibly powerful, beautiful sound of the falls, rainbows and even a small lake at the top where people were swimming. We stopped at the top to enjoy the view and grab a drink from the running waterfall. Now, I know not to drink unpurified water (I showed a scary parasite video last year) but I HAD to drink something and plus it was running :) Don't worry, we are still parasite free as far as we know. The water tasted fantastic too~they should bottle that stuff up and sell it for $1.99. We stopped at several places just admiring it's beauty. I have to say that the waterfall was one of the best parts for me.

Bear paws-so all the signs around the parks say, Do not leave food visible in cars. Others say do not leave any food in cars, use bear proof lockers. However, we never saw a bear even playing in the woods...apparently as some time unknown to us, a bear did find our car :) We noticed that there are dusty bear paw prints all over our truck, the bear tried all sides and just couldn't get to our cooler of food.....Lucky us!!