Crisp Air and Waterfalls

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Crisp Air and Waterfalls

Yosemite National Park (part 1)

{May 16, 2015}

2 weeks ago, we drove to Valencia, CA for Clare's graduation, Papi had a sleep over with Clare and Jared at their new apartment.....

Randy and I drove another 4 hours and had one of the item from my 2015 bucket list checked off - Yosemite National Park!

America has so many beautiful national parks, my friends from Germany flew here every year just to visit some, there is really no reason that we are living so close and haven't been to most. I have been to Grand Canyon, Zion, Arches, Canyon Land national park and Valley of fire state park, Yosemite national and the Yellow stone was on my bucket list, in the beginning of 2015, I told DH that we should at least have one checked off this year and we did!

We stayed at The Monarch at Mariposa, it is small but nice and friendly hotel, they are pet friendly too, so next time I could bring Papi along.

roaring river, ahhhh......

this is the entrance to the park

this was our first stop - Bridal Veil Fall

I thought of Winnie the Pooh when I saw this.....

here's one of my favorite quote

"Sometimes, if you stand on the bottom rail of a bridge and lean over to watch the river slipping slowly away beneath you, you will suddenly know everything there is to be known."

~ Winnie the Pooh

our next stop is Tunnel view

you can see Bridal Veil Fall on the right

next photo is one of my favorite

I just love the layers of the mountains and sky

It was getting dark at this point, we decided to drive back to the hotel, had dinner at a nearby restaurant - Charles Street Dinner House, good was great!

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