From suncream to snow chains!!!

Our next adventure was to Yosemite, which I thought would be another “nice” National Park where the kids could bluff their way through another Junior Ranger badge but nothing prepared me for the sheer beauty, size and wonder of this place!!!!

The first glimpses of snow made us relieved that we had stopped off in Fresno to buy snow chains on the way and as the temperatures started to drop, we wondered what to expect when we arrived. This was the first view from our balcony………..

Over the next few days, I fell in love over & over again with this majestic place! With places that I had only ever heard of before, such as El Capitan and Half Dome and a whole Ansell Adams gallery, where I could have bought up the whole shop!

The endless photos we took don’t do justice to the awesome natural beauty of Yosemite! I have never been somewhere as incredible and uplifting (the kids got fed up of me saying “wow” all the time!!) and some of us could have easily stayed for longer (guess who?!)

We even got Alice & Barnaby to go on a hike, as well as doing the obligatory Junior Ranger badges!

Some of the roads were still closed for the season and thankfully we didn’t have to use the snow chains, but I will be forever grateful that I got the chance to visit this little piece of heaven!