Yosemite Trip June 2008

With the hearty approval of Kiera's fifth grade teacher, Mrs Westbrook, Kiera missed four days of school in June in order to keep our original vacation schedule to visit Yosemite the week of June 9th. We had resevations for a tent cabin at Housekeeping Camp and our attempts to reschedule the dates were not successful. The plan had been made with different school dates in effect. But how much work is still getting done the last three weeks of the year anyway?
Please see our Smilebox photos below. We arrived at Yosemite on Tuesday June 10th, and left reluctantly on Friday June 13th. This time we all had our bikes and the roads, bike paths and trails of Yosemite were experienced in a fantastic way on them.
We rode the shuttle buses, biked, hiked and did the "slow water float" down the river in rafts. It went by too fast and next year, we are going back next year, we'll add at least another day.
When we left on Friday we decided to take the drive up to Glacier Point. Something Mike and I had never done in any of our trips to Yosemite in the past. What were we waiting for?! What an amazing, amazing, (did I say amazing?) experience. A total view of the Yosemite valley we had only seen in pictures.
Below are a couple shots from that vantage point. Our trip was planned to have an opportunity to see the waterfalls in full flow, and we were not dissappointed.
A little Gayle and Mike trivia, we first met on a day trip to Yosemite with my friend Karen and his friend Gary in September 1978.

What We Did On Our Summer Vacation

Make a Smilebox photobook