California Love

DISCLAIMER: MANY PICS TO FOLLOW

We (John's family and us) took a LOOOOONG trip to California this past week. We had such a great time! We flew into Sacramento, went to Placerville (think hiking, river rafting, etc), then Yosemite (more hiking) and then San Francisco.

I am such a home body - I was so glad to be home. Our flight was over an hour late last night from Denver, I thought I was never getting home. But we made it. Here are some highlights of our trip -- I think i have around 800 pics, so I won't bore you. I just might put them on facebook -- so if you're that interested, you can check them out.

Side note: I was totally impressed with San Francisco. It was clean, there were hardly any bums on the street -- and the people were SO NICE!! We rode the bus and taxis (my first time on public transportation) and one girl told us where we needed to go to get to our destination and the most scenic route -- she was trying to study while we bothered her! LOL

Again, we had so much fun....here are the pics:

This is the cabin we stayed in -- it was located next to the American River.

This is the view from our cabin (in Placerville)!

More scenery -- see how green??

We were walking back to the cabin and these deer were REALLY close!!

John missed our kitties -- so he chased the first one he could find.

On our way to Yosemite, about 4 hours from Placerville, the good ole rental Kia was a trooper!

YOSEMITE


This tree was big!! Small though in comparison to what is to come...

Absolutely breathtaking

Yes, yes, that is SNOW!!!

This is the only sign of a bear we saw -- other than the one above ;-)

Please keep in mind that John is 6 feet tall...

Whoops!


The biggest Giant Sequoia "The Grizzly Giant"

Ok, so this sounds like a tall - tale, but we seriously hiked 3 miles in the snow to the trees, then 3 miles back...any missteps....and this is what happens.

Chilunala (not sure if the spelling is right) Falls

Yosemite Valley

San Francisco

That would be a sack of 80 pieces of Ghiradelli chocolate...YESSSSS (I split it with my mother-in-law and sister-in-law).

My cute husband

San Francisco was beautiful