In other news, we now have all our lodging settled for the hiking in Scotland + week in London trip
mrmouse are taking in September - hooray! Two hotels in Edinburgh and London, a lodge in Torridon, the Macdonald Hotel in Kinlochleven near Glencoe, and the Snooty Fox Country Inn near Carlisle/Lake Country. Gotta love staying at a place called "The Snooty Fox!" ;) Since he has a spiffy digital SLR camera he bought last year before our choir tour, he'd like more practice taking landscape photos, and he'd never been to Yosemite, we had discussed a couple months ago to try taking a day to go after the Glacier Point road was open but before our trip. We finally had the chance this weekend, so we did. Ironically I realized that even though I have been to Yosemite in 1996, 1998, 2003 & earlier this year, this is the first time I've been to Yosemite with an American since 1993! :PYosemite in July Gallery Album
mrmouse and brittadotcom at Glacier PointWe took some cheese & cracker party leftovers and a fresh fruit salad for a picnic and drove the Briata (of course!), leaving Cupertino about 8:30am. We made it to the Big Oak Flat entrance around noon, to Tunnel View around 1:30, and up to Glacier Point for our picnic lunch about 2:30. It was hot, and I'd never been to Yosemite on a weekend, let alone in the summer, so it was much more packed with people than I had even seen! We still had fun, though. We left the valley after sunset about 9ish, making it to Oakdale by 11ish where we ate at Denny's, then back to my place about 1:30am. Around 455 miles, with all but the first 80 miles with the top down! A very exhausting day, but a lot of fun and beautiful scenery. Today is hot again so I'm having difficulty wanting to move at all, let alone leave the spot on my couch where my fan is blowing on me, so I figured I might as well settle the Yosemite photos and update my blog... ;) Maybe after it cools down I can do some more party cleaning...
Hope you all had a good weekend!
P.S. The iPhoto to Gallery plugin is SWEET! :D
