Friday

Friday we really wanted to go hiking with Grandpa.  We met them at Glacier Point (Yeah, it's hard to time our kids with our Aunt and Uncle from the East Coast, their internal clocks are different).  Then we did the Sentinel Dome hike.  It was gorgeous and not very long, 3 miles round trip... but it was steep and hurt my foot.  I was crying about half way up.  I could tell that it was like physical therapy and not injury hurt, so I finished up until the dome.  The steeper rock face of the dome was a little intimidating after the trail we'd just climbed.  Jer took the kids up to the top and I waited at the bottom of the dome.  After that we had time for one more hike with the kids.  They all wanted another swimming hike, so we chose to do the Mirror Lake one with Daddy again.  It was later in the day so not as sunny, but the kids loved it again.   I forgot to mention that Thursday we met everyone at Half Dome Village for pizza.  $45 for pizza for our family is a ton, but we enjoyed having cold water and taking a quick shower in the pool side bathrooms before leaving.

Grandpa helped the kids with the binoculars so that they could see the people climbing half dome.

My hikers

This face!

Evelyn is a hiker, but she's also a little dramatic.  She wasn't scared, but she found a place on the rock to curl up so that she wouldn't fall.

This is on the dome, not on a ledge.  The camera angle makes it look more dangerous than it is.

Evelyn fell on the way down the path and Sam went over to help her.  He made sure that she wasn't bleeding anywhere and then stuck her arm around his shoulders to help her down the path.  She liked that so much that she held his hand the rest of the way to the car.  My Boy Scout.

Mountain goats in their habitat.