MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: MARCH 7 – 14, 2016!

MY WEEK IN PHOTOS: MARCH 7 – 14, 2016!
Community service day at work and a four day adventure in Yosemite with some of my best friends. Includes a snow day, an “oopsies we got lost” experience, and a gorgeous (slightly strenuous) hike to see Upper Yosemite Falls.

Enjoooy!

Woke up on Monday morning to the sound of thunder and lighting. Tweedy was just staring at me, shivering (he’s freshly shaved). We snuggled and listened to the pouring rain….

Love the rainy days.

Look how clear it is! I wish we had more rain, we’d have less smog.

Looking super sporty today with my hiking boots and volunteering outfit.

Got to my desk and found this poop emoji…no note from a mysterious sender…

Today is the annual Getty day of service. I was supposed to do the outdoor project but because of the rain that project was cancelled. So instead we jumped in to the indoor on-site project to make blankets for two local women’s shelters.

Yeaaah!

Snacks!

Tweedy is so smol

In an uber with a driver who has a coconut side hustle.

Film and a show at Cinefamily with Waxahatchee

We ruin art

Hiking shoes really controlling me

Lovely sunset

Real blurry my bad, but Kiki at happy hour

Never go to happy hour and then to REI.

Was tempted.

Avocado icecream with frozen avocado chunks!!!

Zach brought me spicy garlic fries from a meeting but they were very cold…still ate them.

^___^

South Building bathroom

Forgot ponytails were a thing

Ready for bed

6am cooler shot

More food/snacks than clothing for Yosemite

Really need to fix that curtain rod

A farewell gift from Marie

5.5 hour drive

We’re in!

GUH!

We arrived to our cabin in Yosemite West, then headed out for what we thought would be “an easy hike” around the Wawona Meadow.

Sticky mud we deemed “witch brew”

When the hike was still pleasant and we didn’t realize we weren’t lost

Zach’s legs are noodles

Beaut

A little sweaty and happy to see a river

The gang

Notice anything?

Yes…all the tiny orange piles are lady bugs

She’s so hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiigh, high above me

After the traumatic realization we weren’t on the trail we thought and were indeed very deep into the mountain trail…we decided we’d need to hike back out the same way because it got dark and scary…

The pasta Marie made and sent with us was a god send.

Everybody so happy to be alive. Watching Harry Potter, eating sour s’getti

Good morning!!!

Waiting for the others to wake up, enjoying some coffee and the view.

Breakfast for all!

It was forecasted to snow….and indeed it started.

So excited!!!

So pretty

We watched the Revenant which was a good survival mode fodder

Snow update!

“Should we go outside?”

Yes.

Absolutely.

Zach with a beer

Just wandering around in the snow, throwin’ balls

Sensual beanie adjustment

We’re down

Two snow angels making snow angels

A lovely winter wonderland walk through Yosemite West

After a day in the snow, time for some warm chili and baked potatoes

Good morning! A new day, a new environment

More puzzling…

I was burned by some hot spam oil that shot at my neck the morning before…looks…eh…gross?

Another hike day! We are going into Yosemite Valley all day, so packing our lunches in the AM is keeey

Bringing an MRE to fulfill my dream of making one in the wild

Men in Black, dressed to hike

So excited to be out on the road, we were worried we wouldn’t get to see the valley because of the weather.

Quick stop to remove the tire chains

WOWOWOWOWO

You don’t even have to work for this view, you just drive through a tunnel toward the valley and BAM.

Sights and peeps as we drive to visitor center parking

Cold face

We decided to do a quick stroll (an actual stroll) to see the lower falls, it was a paved trail with a bunch of cute dogs.

And now for the Upper Yosemite Falls trail, apparently only 3 miles round trip to the “Oh my gosh” look out point but over 60 switchbacks…

Before!

Air out the pits

The views getting better and better as your legs get more and more tired

Crossing a river on a log, Aryn’s dream

OMIGOSH!

THE FALLS!!!

Sat to have lunch

We’re stupid and probably shouldn’t have brought sandwiches up to the top of the trail. There was a very territorial blue jay ready to bite Kiki’s head off.