Yay for Yosemite Part II

Today was our big day at Yosemite.  With the Schroeder's close behind we made tracks for Yosemite Valley.  This was to be our only day so the valley was the place to be.
I had been to Yosemite before but don't remember much. Adam hadn't been at all. SO we were very excited.
One of my favorite parts was to come through the tunnel and instantly see this amazing vista provided by the Yosemite Valley. (See picture above) Gorgeous. Just to the right of my head you can see Bridal Veil Falls. The big curved slab of rock behind Adam's head is Half Dome, (to be tackled another time when no kids are involved!) and El Capitan to the left.

Bridal Veil Falls

Hike back from Bridal Veil Falls
Easy "hike".

The kids all decided it would be cool to collect sticks- especially Noah. 

Taylor started feeling sick so they left Will with us and went to the medical center. We, on the other hand, went to Yosemite Falls. It was quite the walk to the trail head and then to the falls. 

My little hikers did great though.

Yosemite Falls!

We had to wait our turn to get our picture taken on this special log. It was pretty crowded. I wonder what its like at, say, the end of October.
Will ended up going back to the condo with his family because he was starting to feel sick as well.
Poor Schroeder's.

This was a really cool, SCARY hike.  

The first part of the hike was pretty chilled (except for the part where Noah didn't feel good and then relieved himself and THEN felt good. Poor baby. :/ )

The second half of the hike, the Mist Trail, up to Vernal Falls was super slippery with a cliff to our left down into a raging river. I kinda can't believe I did it with my kids but I didn't want to miss out! It was a spectacular sight for sure.  Only two weeks before we were there three people fell to their deaths off the Vernal Falls.  Knowing this somehow didn't help my nervousness...

After this last hike we were all tired and ready to head back to the condo.  We took the shuttle back to our car and saw a little more of the park we hadn't seen.
We had a really big and long day ahead of us.  9 hours of driving home that I had been dreading from the beginning of the trip.