Yosemite Pt. 4: Mother's Day

I don't I will hurt my husbands feelings if I say this Mother's Day was the best one so far!  I started my day with breakfast by the fire with my two little monkeys while we left Daddy to catch up on some sleep. And it was my chance to see Timo's bump up close.  He had slipped on a rock the day before and somehow fell so that his hiking stick jabbed in his forehead.  Luckily it didn't go in his eye!  The swelling had gone down a little but it still looked pretty nasty.

We decided to relax Sunday morning and let the kids just chill doing something fun.  The Lodge had tons of kids activities so Timo chose archery and Cameron chose rock climbing.  While Young had the kids, Mommy slipped down to the spa to relax and have a short steam room detox.

After checking out of the hotel we headed back into the Valley, this time to the famous Ahwahnaee Hotel for Mother's Day brunch.  Our view from brunch was spectacular.

We explored the hotel after eating, trying to find the woodpecker we heard, Cameron wants a desk like this to do her homework on and our new souvenir friends had to have their pictures taken too.  Everywhere we turned on the grounds of the hotel was like looking at a postcard...

 

Timo had found two rocks on our hike to the Lower Falls the day before and thought it was the same kind of rock the Indians made arrowheads out of, obsidian.  He really really wanted to go back and show the demo guy at the Indian museum to see if it was real.  Luckily the same guy was there, remembered Timo and informed us one was obsidian and one was granite.  You could tell Timo had been thinking a lot about the information he got the day before and had a few more follow up questions for him about making a bow and arrow.  We got all the instructions and it was time for us to head back to SF.

I was so blessed to spend Mother's Day weekend with my family and to have a husband to plan the whole thing for us.  Our drive back seemed long but the Lord had one more reminder our blessings and of the beautiful city He allows us to live in...a beautiful sunset over home as we drove back over the Bay Bridge.

We've already decided to make Mother's Day weekend an annual trip every year.  Reservations are made for next year and the "to-do" list is already pilling up!  I can't wait to go back....