Yosemite! 4/25-27

Sunday morning we drove up to Yosemite to meet Eric and Stacy (they spent the previous day in San Jose with stacy's family while we spent some time family at the beach with friends).

We stayed in a condo apartment as close to the heart of Yosemite as we could get without sleeping in a tent city  It was strange to be at the beach one day, and just drive into the snow (albeit just a little bit) at Yosemite.

We took the kids to a little snow area where majority of the snow had melted.

but it was just enough to let them experice snow

 and throw some snowballs at uncle eric

and to remind me how much of a snowsnob i've become living in sunshine!  

After the snow adventure, we decided to explore the Giant Sequoias.  We started the 6 mile hike late afternoon, hoping to get back before the sunset.

eric was nice enough to give me a break from kid-carrying. 

 

here we are approaching the giant trees!

 stacy - being a tree hugger.

this was the first of many of the giants, some of the trees are upwards of 3000 years old!

check out the monstrous roots!!

these things are huge!

The Grizzly Giant is estimated to be 1800 years old

and just for fun...!

we made it back to the car, just in time as the sun went down.