Getting out of California, but one last trip to Yosemite

I know that I have not posted in a while, but we have very busy. I got a transfer to Washington...yes you heard right....we are moving to Spokane Washington next week. With the big news out, we have had a lot of friend get together's and Brenda has had her hands full with the social coordination calendar duties. My job is with the same company, but will change a little bit. We are very excited to move , but after 7 years in the bay area, it will be hard to leave the perfect weather and all of our friends, but change is good. This will be a very picture intensive post to try and catch all of you up with photos so it will be more interesting.

Here is our small group at our last meeting.
Lots of fun.

Brenda's sister and her family planned on coming out here about a week and a half ago and we had a chance to take some time off and go camping in Yosemite.

Brenda picked them up from the airport and headed for the beach. They had a great time.

Abby loved the water and was not scared at all. Maggie liked the sand...not the waves.
Here they are at the beach.

Here is the whole family.

We headed up to Yosemite on Thursday and it was perfect weather for camping. 75-80 in the day and 45-50 at night is perfect camping temps.

Here we are at Hetch Hetchy.

The water is very high and the falls are great.

Here is the view from Glacier Point.

You kind of got to keep an eye on the kids up here, because it is a long way down.

Dan and Sarah had a great time. It was Dan's first time to the park, and being from Indiana he kind of thought all of the mountains was very cool.

The same spot as the above picture, but just another angle...great scenery everywhere.

The camping spot was off of a forest service road and great as always. The usual spot was taken, but this was close to the river to, so we made it work.

The old woman and I had a great time as well. This early in the year their are no fires so the sky is very clear and every picture is a good one.

Same spot....different people.

We also went to the Mariposa grove. This is the base of a giant tree that fell over years ago.

Brenda on the trail....now that is some good scenery

Lower Yosemite falls trail hike.

This is right in front of the church. I would love to see this every Sunday.

Yosemite falls

Near the campsite there was this field of Lupine. Brenda was more than happy to pose for a pic....or 10.

Here are the girls picking the flowers for the table back at the campsite.

The sisters.

Here is Brenda doing an archeology dig with the girls. They found dirt and rocks, and even a stick. I was less then impressed.

Here is Abby playing around in the visitors center.

No people in this one...and it is still good.

Tree huggin girl. I think she is on the way to a long life of loving the outdoors.

After Camping we headed up to Redding to meet with Brenda's parents. We stayed in a cabin and had a great time.

Here we are playing mother may I. Hours of fun.

More mother may I where Jim is taking two robot steps forward.

Brenda and Sarah at Shasta
Brenda took a walk and then got crapped on by a bird...that is very very nasty. And to think I kissed her on the cheek when she got back to the cabin. She never told me about the crap until I looked through the camera about 5 hours ago. I think I should go get tested for something.