Yosemite

O.K., so I got a bug up my butt and felt like I just had to get away for a little bit. Feeling a little "shack-whacky", you know how it is. With a three day weekend approaching and nothing planned, I called a hotel in Oakhurst and reserved a room for Saturday night. Saturday, the kids and I got up and cleaned the house, went and washed and vacuumed the car, got the oil changed, went grocery shopping, and did a couple loads of laundry. Then, I packed us an overnight bag, some snacks for the car and a bag of toys for each of the kids. We loaded up and were on the road at 4:00pm. We got into Oakhurst at 6:30pm. In order to get a room on the ground level, because of the kids, I was offered a handycap room. It was so huge! No door on the bathroom, but with it being just me and the kids, no biggie, and there was no bathtub only a shower, but that was fine.

We got up in the morning and had the continental breakfast in the community room, then loaded up the car and drove into Yosemite. Just about as soon as we got there, it started raining, pretty hard too. So I stopped and we got out for a little bit, but the kids were a little cold and wanted to get back in the car. We drove for a while, but I was getting a little nervous 'cause of the rain and the elevation and the twisty mountain roads, so I turned around and we went back a little bit to this place that we'd seen that had old log houses. It is a landmark historical site. So we got out and explored the little village in the rain, but the kids seemed to be o.k. with it this time. We found a trail that wandered alongside the river, so we walked that for a while, the kids threw pinecones in the water and watched them get washed away. We ended up spending about three hours at the park. I would have liked to say a lot longer, but the rain was making it pretty miserable. When we were done playing there, we went back into Oakhurst and went to a childrens museum. We stayed there for about three hours. The kids had a great time. They were pretty wiped out by 3:00pm, so we loaded up and got on the road. I was back in Paso at 5:30pm, we were all pretty tired, so we had an easy dinner and just snuggled on the couch and watched a movie together untill bedtime. It was a pretty fun weekend.

Today we are cleaning the house, and later we will go check out the new Castle Park that just opened last weekend. It was a nice bonding weekend for me and the kids.