Day 1 in Yosemite National Park, California

Hello Everyone,

After we checked into our campground in Yosemite Valley we went to Yosemite National Park on Sunday, 9/19/11. Yosemite NP is a beautiful place, mountains, valleys, wilderness and just hard to put into words! Here's what the National Park Service says about Yosemite: "Not just a great Valley...but a shrine to human foresight, strength of granite, power of glaciers, the persistence of life, and the tranquility of the High Sierra.
Yosemite National Park, one of the first wilderness parks in the United States, is best known for its waterfalls, but within its nearly 1,200 square miles, you can find deep valleys, grand meadows, ancient giant sequoias, a vast wilderness area, and much more." This says it all.  We drove for about an hour to get to the good part of the park. As soon as we drove out of a tunnel, we saw many beautiful waterfalls as we looked at one, it made a sort of rainbow that was hard to capture on film. Next, we went to Yosemite Falls, where all of us but Mom went climbing on the rocks.  After Yosemite Falls, we headed to Bridalveil falls where all the boys and Annie climbed on the rocks. Afterwards, we headed back about an hour to our campground, had dinner at Jack in the Box, and went to bed. 

Part of the view out of the tunnel, you can kind of see the rainbow made by the waterfall.

A Mule Deer just walking along the road.

Yosemite's famous Half Dome.

Bridalveil falls, isn't it gorgeous?