Northern California Day 8 and All the Pictures

All the Yosemite Pictures:
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Thursday
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Saturday

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6:45pm 7/18/15 - on plane back to Burbank after a bit of a crazy couple hours. After returning to civilization about 2 hours outside Yosemite I got a text that my flight was delayed from 8:15 to 10:30 pm. Yikes. Then checked social media and realized there's terrible weather in LA WTF? After hitting some traffic I got lucky at Oakland airport and there was literally not a soul in security. So I was able to make it standby onto the 6:45 flight. Hooray! Except in all the rush I seem to have lost my fitbit :(

Anyway, this morning we decided to skip breakfast because I think we were both still full from dinner last night. We stopped at the site and got bananas and made our way to the village, where the parking lots were already filling up. Hopped on the free valley shuttle. 

We were going to do the mirror lake walk but it sounded boring. At the last minute, we decided to get off a stop early and do the first part of the vernal falls trail instead. It was less than a mile up and thankfully paved but uphill basically the whole way. Then downhill the whole way back! 

Caught the shuttle back to the village and got a pizza for lunch and wandered around the village a bit. A small museum and reconstructed native village but not much else there. We ended with a long shopping stroll through the huge store. 

And in this special "judging you" edition of the blog, here are just some of the stupid things we observed people do in 3 days at a national park:

• French women smoking in a drought ravaged national treasure on a dry 95 degree day
• People wandering off paths onto rocks and into forests
• People letting their children climb onto things right next to signs warning that doing that can kill them. 
• A woman carrying/wearing a small baby on her front on a rocky hiking trail
• A woman pushing a regular stroller on an unpaved dirt trail
• People hiking in flip flops/all dressed up/without water, or even better, a combination of such things.
• Stupid idiots who carve their names into ancient and protected trees and logs 
• People from Oklahoma who drove ~an hour and on dirt roads to get to a Sequoia grove, then turn around and go home before they made it halfway through.

As Seth and Amy would say... Really???

So where's my next adventure? Don't know, we'll have to see!