Day 9

Not sure who gave the girls permission to make fun of me the other day on the blog(heehee) but it’s my turn to tell you about our day yesterday, so we won’t have to worry about it happening this time. We have met a few people here and there, so why not at the Econo Lube?!? One thing for sure, there are certainly a lot of people speaking different languages every place we have been thus far.

After our continental breakfast at the Comfort Inn in Oakhurst yesterday morning, we only had about a 30 minute drive to Yosemite National Park. We had purchased the annual national park pass early on, so we’ve been able to get into all national parks, making that well worth our while. We have definitely done our share of parks this week, thus the winding around the twists and curves in the mountains and in canyons has taken its toll. Yosemite was truly a treat. It was the most family friendly place. It was so lush with huge trees, rock formations, the rushing Merced River and very impressive waterfalls. We shot a lot of pictures because we were really able to get right out and walk around a lot. We hiked to areas that made us again very grateful for the beauty of God’s creation. There is no way that pictures can describe what we saw, but we did our best to snap as many pictures as we could! I will say that I was disappointed in one thing. As much as we’ve heard about the black bears in CA, we didn’t see a single one of them. I looked really hard, but it just didn’t happen. We saw a handful of deer crossing but no bears.

After leaving Yosemite, we had a 4 hour drive to San Francisco. We arrived there last night at about 6pm. How exciting to go from all of nature to the beautiful city of San Francisco. We have never been here before either so a lot of planning has gone into this portion of our trip. Thanks to my sister Julie’s expertise, we are staying in Fisherman’s Wharf, at The Wharf Inn. I know it’s her favorite city, and from what I’ve heard, a lot of others as well. We’ll be here for 3 nights. After walking down Pier 39, checking out the sea lions and enjoying a yummy seafood dinner, we made it back to our room to prepare for a big day today.

Posted by: Cheryl