Yosemite, 2nd visit

Monday brought another beautiful day and we decided to head back to Yosemite to try and see some of the things we missed on our first visit. We got a bit of a late start because we needed to bring our car to the shop before we could leave. Fortunately Kim was nice enough to let us use her van for the day. Our girls have really been enjoying visiting with Abby, so we took her along for the day.


We packed a lunch and the first thing we did when we got to the park was to find a picnic spot near the base of El Capitan and had ourselves a nice little picnic.


From our picnic spot the next goal was to make the run to Glacier Point. This area provides spectacular vistas overlooking the river valley area. It was cool at the upper elevations, but overall it was a gorgeous day.



The final spot we wanted to visit was the Mariposa Grove of giant sequoias. The size of those trees continues to amaze me!


We exited the park at the South Entrance and headed back towards Brian and Kim's house. We were running a bit later than we wanted to and ended up making half the trip after dark. Unfortunately we didn't make the smartest decisions on what route to take and had to do way too many miles of mountain twisty's in the dark. It did make me want to come back here someday on the motorcycle, though!