We got away from it all for the long Thanksgiving weekend, and went on a trip to Yosemite National Park ,a 5 hour drive norht of LA .
We left early in the morning... for once our excitement had inspired us to up and ready early... well relatively early at any rate, and we were on the road by 7 AM! With only one stop on the way we were at the park by 12:30- just in time for lunch! (And yes it did seem like we were eating all the time... what can I say ... fresh air makes me hungry... but so does everything else, so...)
The drive had been through dry, barren land, with only a few lonely looking trees to relieve the dreary landscape, a reminder that though in the city, there are trees and lawns... California is partly a desert- In that sense it is amazing, within a single state it seems to have every kind of landscape,- grasslands and rocks, mountains borgering the sea, and the rich pine forests that we were heading towards.
We went to one of the famous veiwing points first- Glacier point. Yosemite by the way is a Valley that was carved out of Glaciers during the Ice-Age. From this particular point you have an excellent view of the Geological formations that the Glaciers create- hence( or so I assume ) the name. (We had an argument about what erosion due to glaciers created- morasses, molasses... only the M remained constant in our guesses- the answer is Morraines- so much for 8th std Geography.)
From that point we could see some of the most famous sights in Yosemite- including the Half-Dome and the Vernal and Nevada Falls- On the river Merced.
The night we spent in a cottage on Bass Lake - an artificial lake just outside the Park itself. It was a very cozy place and had a small attich which caused no little excitement- you would have thought we were 5 years old - to see us run up and down the ladder. We were glad to get to bed that night... It had been a long day and the next day would be as long .
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