Our home for the night: The Majestic Yosemite hotel. Its name says it all.  Built in the 1920″s with stunning views and exceptional architecture. The Majestic Yosemite Hotel was specifically designed to highlight its natural surroundings, featuring Yosemite Falls, Half Dome and Glacier Point.

Dinner at the Majestic Yosemite Hotel Dining Room

Kids went out to town with our leaders for dinner while the adults enjoyed fine dining.

Exploring the hotel:

Great Lounge

Solarium room: letting in the bright mountain sunshine

The biggest fireplace I’ve seen.

Winter Club Room

Mural room

Breathtaking sunset. My camera couldn’t capture it but the colors looked exactly like Mac OS X screensaver of Half dome…

Kids came back from dinner and they were having a blast running around on the lawn.

Can you see the kids?

Lovely to see these kids forming a new friendship. 

Hiding behind the bush?

Another 1.4 miles to Glacier Point, the highest point in the park.

Breathtaking and majestic! Amazing panoramic view of with a commanding view of Yosemite Valley, Half Dome, Yosemite Falls, and Yosemite’s high country from up here. 

We made it to the top!

We continued hiking to Sentinel dome to see different angels of El Capitan, Half Dome and Yosemite Falls. Distance: 1.9 miles, Elevation gain: 1,122 feet.

Indian paintbrush flowers

We stopped to have lunch at half point

Heading to Taft point. Distance: 2.5 miles, Elevation: 7,500 ft

The leaders took the kids for archery while I went for a massage and Andrew rested in the room. My legs were so sore from today’s hike and it was just what I needed.

After dinner, Chloe and I had time to go to the spa and had a girls’ time.

We woke up early to fill us up with a healthy breakfast before beginning our adventure today.

Then we went to the trailer where our leaders have prepared variety of food so we can grab & pack our lunches  before heading out to Mariposa Grove of Giant Sequoias~

Sweet tiny strawberries

Happy 4th! 

We are smelling Ponderosa Pine bark which smells like vanilla or butterscotch

Our home for the first night: Tenaya Lodge

Shane hit it off with the other boy at the pool. 🙂  A beginning of a new friendship…

After swim, we gathered for cocktail hour  

followed by BBQ dinner with a live concert

Smores!

Shane showing off his dance moves.

fortnight dance off.