My Yosemite Trip with Mom and Dad : Part 1

Dad had a couple extra days off for all those baseball games he works, but it is great because we can take little vacations. Our first mini vacation was Yosemite, and did I ever have a good time. These first couple pictures are from the deck of our hotel at the Yosemite View Lodge. It was a great place because it was about a stones throw (even though I can only throw about a foot so far) from the National Park. You can see the Merced River was solid white water and it sounded like jet engines even in the middle of the night. What a great place to stay. Dad and I would sit on the deck and listen to the roar of the river! We had quite a trip getting there as we drove for 2 hours to Merced only to get off the freeway and see a sign that said "Road closed, no Yosemite access"..Amazingly Dad didn't panic but we turned around an hour and then went in Route 120 which was really slow. Mom and I were a little worried when Dad told us it would take an extra 3 hours, but somehow it still ended up okay even though we could have flown to New York faster than we drove to Yosemite.