Birthday Celebrations = State Park Exploring

     This last weekend was my birthday (3/14) and so we did some more exploring.  The morning started out with homemade wheat pancakes (provided by Grandpa) and Seth gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and hockey tickets to see the San Jose Sharks!  Seth and I also bought a new camera, a professional SLR by Sony.  We were really excited to try it out and wanted to take it exploring with us.  So we drove to Yosemite National Park and hiked up the trail to the lookout point.  We wanted to hike all the way to the top of the falls, but once we got to the halfway mark we discovered that the rest of the trail was covered in snow and was a much much steeper climb... since we were just in jeans and tennis shoes we decided against it, but next time we won't wimp out.  It was the best birthday.

We were lucky enough to see a little linx chasing a squirrel

This bird was so cool and Seth was able to get really close to it before it flew away

We met a guy from Germany who took this picture, behind us is the upper half of Yosemite Falls

There were so many spots to rock climb along the trail, we HAD to stop a try out a few... and Seth just HAD to get creative with the camera

This is a shot of Bridalveil Falls, its a smaller waterfall that you see when entering the park

    This next park that we decided to visit is called Big Tree National Park.  It is only a 20 minute drive away from where we live.  So on Sunday we drove up after church and since it was such a warm sunny day in Angels Camp we were wearing our shorts and t-shirts... we had no idea that there would be snow at Big Tree Park! So we decided to get out and take a few pics, but after about 15 minutes we got cold and decided to head back.

This is the Centennial Tree; its actually not THAT tall, but it sure is wide