LIttle Escape from Reality

No, we are not using drugs to escape the responsibilities of life. We escapee to the Yosemite National Park for a weekend to meet up with my dad. Every year, he finds a business conference in the Western U.S to attend and mixes business with pleasure as he comes to visit us or we meet with him. Fall 2006, dad and I took a week long road trip in Northern California.

This time, we met up with dad in Vegas, where he had spent few days at a conference, and drove to California. We drove around Yosemite and got settled into our canvas tent on Friday. It dropped to the 20s at night so Troy and I shared a sleeping bag to keep us warm. My poor dad had 4 blankets and he was still freezing.  

We actually saw a bear and bear cubs! It wasn't a huge bear but still a bear.  As we were driving out of Yosemite, everyone was stopping and getting out of their cars with cameras. So Troy did the same and now we have a proof of our bear experience. We also saw a car that a bear had destroyed. At first we thought that it was a "set-up" to remind everyone to be smart about food etc in their cars; however, as we returned from our hike  we saw a couple whose car it was. They weren't very happy as the driver's side door was torn off and windows broken.

On Saturday we did a 6-mile hike to the Nevada waterfalls; the top of the upper one in this picture . We actually got wet as we passed the first waterfall because there was so much mist. It was beautiful and we got a nice work out since it was quite the elevation change.

My dad insists on getting a convertible when he visits California so I had be bundled up to keep myself warm. There was still now in some parts of the national park so no wonder it got little chilly.

Our trip gave us the much needed energy boost to finish this week's finals. Good luck to everyone who is doing their finals or whose hubbies are finishing their finals.  I'll be at the health science library at 6:30 am tomorrow to study for mine:)