Sabbatical Post #2

We've made it to Las Vegas - almost 1/2 way through our trip. After Lake of the Springs Campground, we went to Modesto to show Ethan where Jason grew up. We stayed at one of Jason's friends parents house and had a wonderful time visiting with them. They recently installed a pool so they boys enjoyed swimming late night and early morning in the 100+ heat.

After Modesto, we headed to Yosemite National Park. If you haven't had a chance to go there, I highly reccomend it as a must do! It is gorgeous and super fun. We enjoyed biking around the valley (Jacob in the trailer). There is paved bike paths over alot of the valley, so it was a great way to check it out. Our campground was right on the Merced River and Ethan enjoyed rafting down a man-made little canal in the river - I did some floating too which was fun. Jacob continued to enjoy getting really dirty all the time! We drove up to Glacier point to overlook the entire valley and we able to marvel at God's creation. On the way out of Yosemite, we drove through the East entrance and saw another beautiful side of Yosemite - massive granite boulder and fields and domes of the granite, so unique and amazing!

From Yosemite we went to Bishop, CA to visit Jason's Dad and Step-mom. They are camp hosts at a lake at 9000 ft - Sabrina Lake - for the summer. It was a great campground on a creek. They treated us to a great day on a pontoon boat on the lake to do some serious fishing. 3 fish were caught an 1 kept, but at the end of the day we could have all cared less on how many fish were caught. We had a great time in the boat. Jacob loved fishing and driving and walking around the boat. Ethan loved catching 2 of the 3 fish and driving the boat. Jacob even took a nap. The terrain around the lake and Bishop was different again, we have loved seeing it all.

This morning we headed to Las Vegas through Death Valley National Park - the terrain here was super varied again and we all understand why they call it Death Valley - 107 degrees and nothing around. We had a major pass to go over which made us a bit nervous in George (we finally named the Tahoe), but with only 1 stop we made up the 5000 ft elevation gain and then back down to -190 ft.

Tonight we are staying with my counsin Lindsay, enjoying good conversation and appreciating a real bed and laundry.

Sorry for no pics again - we will have a big post I promise after the Grand Canyon (0ur next stop).