So we when we woke up this morning (October 22) we received a phone call from our good friend Sarah telling us that our good friend Emily had just HAD HER BABY GIRL!!!! It’s hard not to be there in person with you all as you celebrate the introduction of this Beautiful Being into the world, but we hope you can feel us there in Spirit. You tell her that her crazy aunts will be home soon!!! We love you Emily and Rusty! CONGRATULATIONS!!! Sarah and Bryan…your time is coming = )
So we hit the road towards Tioga Pass (Hwy 120) into Yosemite. The drive towards Yosemite was beautiful and we had a feeling that it was only a preview of what was to come, and we were right. Yosemite is gorgeous!!!! We took our time, stopping to take photographs and to take in this place. At one point we stopped to watch two small black bears cross a creek and then the road. We stopped at places such as Lake Ellery which is located at an elevation over 9,000 ft. We put our feet in the water at Tenaya Lake, saw El Capitan, Half Dome in the distance, meadows, rivers…We were lucky and stopped near Yosemite Valley to check for a campsite. Some people make reservations a year in advance. We were able to get a site at the Upper Pines campground in Curry Village. We drove just a short bit into Yosemite Village store to buy some firewood and a fishing license. Turns out everything in that store is expensive = ) We bought some wood, but the fishing license was twice the cost of a campsite. So no fishing here. We then went to our campsite and put all items with any type of scent into the bear bins. I then decided to go for a quick run before the sun went down. When I was almost finished I was going to run part of the bike path to where our campground was, but I heard someone banging on pots and pans. I decided to run away from the banging and cut just ever so slightly off the path onto the road. I then saw a teenager with a backpack running down the path, and then I looked right behind him and there it was…A BLACK BEAR = ) Not sure how close I was to it, 20 ft I would say. I did not stay to chat. When the bear looked the other way I took off sprinting across the road, through a shut down campground, to our campground. All kinds of adrenaline was running through me.
When I returned I told Sandy about it, we made dinner, cleaned up our mess, and then sat by the fire for a while. However our site is on the edge of the woods, so we would frequently shine the flashlight out into the darkness to check and see if we had any friends coming to visit = ). It’s time to rest now, and we will get up and explore the park some more tomorrow. To ALL of our loved ones back home, and to all the new friends we have made along the way. We pray that you are healthy and at peace. We send our love and may you have beautiful dreams this evening! NAMASTE!
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