took my dad to yosemite to celebrate his 60th bday father-daughter style. it was awesome!!
some highlights
-some no-name, dirt-cheap "french bistro" in los banos where the locals eat
-straits cafe with old friends <3
-how dad started clarifying to *everyone* we came across that i was his daughter, as if people might accidentally mistake me as his gf =P
-it was way colder than either of us expected, like 20's the first night there. would've been smart to bring hat and gloves! we partly decided not to rent bikes thinking our hands would freeze without gloves
-pictures, pictures, pictures (some posted to share)
-hiking to vernal & nevada falls
-seeing yosemite falls right outside our hotel window
-finally learning to use flash photography =P
-mirror lake, including "half done upside-down"
-SO many stars, so so many
-fancy dinner at the ahwahnee hotel
-dad kicking off the covers at 72 degrees in the room overnight, while i'm bundled up under as many blankets as possible
-watching TV first thing in the morning and last thing at night (since i never even turn on the TV, really! ... and btw, the patriots vs colts game sunday night was amazing. manning is my hero! if i ever play fantasy football, i'm picking him as my QB =P)
-sleeping 10 hours a night
-huge, fat sequoia trees; totally unchanged from when we saw them 15 years ago
-ducky tagging along, then accidentally falling into the dirt =( so i gave her a bath in the large whirlpool known as the washing machine
lastly, the trip kinda ended on a sad note because there was a fatal accident on the 41S, just a few minutes before we got there. it was so early that the police/ambulances hadn't arrived yet, but i got out of my car to see why we were parked on the road and saw the car wreck myself, with two motionless, lifeless bodies stuck behind blown-up airbags inside. i knew immediately that they had passed; it was so eerie. i wanted to vomit. walking back to where i had parked on the highway, people rolled down their windows to ask me "what did they say? what did you see?" and all i could mutter over and over was "i think they died ... i think they died ..." it really shook me up =( not only that, if dad and i had left yosemite just a few minutes earlier, the car really might have hit our car head-on instead of the truck they ended up hitting. it really scares me =( life is so short, so precious, so fragile ... i prayed that the people had known Christ before the accident
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