First trip to Yosemite

I am behind on the blogs, so here are the pictures from our first weekend in Yosemite with little Anouk and my mom a few weeks ago. We rented a house with our friends Ed and Adriana, and I had planned to hike to Vernal and Nevada Falls on Friday hoping to avoid the crowds...... A lot more people were having similar thoughts :-( In addition, it was about 90 degrees in the Valley, making the hike pretty strenuous. The waterfalls were beautiful though, and my mom enjoyed the scenery: this is us in front of Yosemite Falls, and me with Vernal Falls in the background.




The last part to Vernal Falls seemed a little slippery, so we backtracked and hiked up to Clark Point, with amazing views of Nevada Falls, where we had to change Anouk's diaper with a beautiful backdrop:



The next day, we went up to the high country on Tioga Road to avoid the crowds. We hiked up to May Lake with Ed and Adriana, and had beautiful views of the surrounding mountains and the wildlife (marmot) along the way.


We made it to the lake, and with Mt. Hoffmann in the background and snow on the ground, it made for a beautiful lunch spot.



We hiked around the lake through some snow fields to look at the waterfalls coming down from the top of the mountain.





We also stopped at an overlook with views of the Sierras:




Pictures of Anouk will come later......... :-)