Valley Vistas

Welcome back to Yosemite Valley—just in case you forgot where we left off!

This trickle ought to be Bridal Veil Falls, but things were already pretty dry then.  

                               
We hardly missed the waterfalls anyway, we were distracted by the cutest pair of sunny smiles.

                    
And oh, the scenery!  (No, I didn’t place the heart-rocks in the water like that; they were already there.)

      
They do have the usual amount of sibling spats and quarrels, but overall they really are best buds and this particular morning they were at their best together.
   Family tourist shot—hooray!

         
And then Jake and the kids were looking at something and I had a few minutes by myself to sit and play with the camera.  I don’t usually attempt selfies, but I’d taken about a thousand pictures already that day and made it into maybe three of them and I figure we need some record that I was on this trip too!

          
Of course there were lots of pictures of Jake and the kids, especially since this was our pre-deployment trip.  (Remember that deployment thing that happened back in the fall?  It feels like a really long time ago.)

                        
More Jake and the kids, and, for some reason, the lone little camper van driving off here makes me smile.
              

Another small herd of deer was near the visitors center and museum, a couple of them literally only a few feet from the sidewalk, and this grouping was all females and fawns.

If I remember correctly, we grabbed a late lunch in the general vicinity of the deer and then headed back to our cabin so that Naomi could nap.  She didn’t get (or need) a nap every day we were on this trip, and while it was nice to have the flexibility to stay out all day, it was also good to have a reason to slow down sometimes.  But that brings us to the end of another vacation day as well as the end of the current day.  G’night all!