Homeward Bound

On my last post it was Friday evening and we'd just had a lovely birthday dinner in the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.  On Saturday morning we had a quick breakfast in our room and got packed up to leave.  The photo below was actually the next morning but it's so pretty I put it at the top.  More on it later.

After dinner on Friday we walked to the lobby area which we hadn't checked out.  What a nice big comfortable place for visitors to enjoy.. 

There was a real fire crackling away in the big fireplace.

There were also several glass cases with collections of Indian baskets from the area.  

I just love them!  Which one is your favorite?

This one is HUGE and had a large custom made display for it.  It was 4 feet tall and 3 feet wide!

The next morning they brought our car around and loaded our things in it for us, we were happy to see that no bear had decided to break into it.  :-)  We then enjoyed our drive out of the park enjoying everything we saw one last time.  We decided to take another road out than we used to enter - that one was steep and windy and this one we had been told was river grade and flatter.  It was much nicer!  We followed the Merced River as we made our way towards home.

Looking back from whence we came.

We traveled many a mile through the countryside and eventually we reached civilization and then cities and freeways and at Sacramento we found our way to I-5 and from then on we knew our way home.  We passed at least 50 firetrucks from Oregon and Washington heading South to help out with the fires burning in California.  In fact we could not get a room in the hotels where we'd planned to stop as the electric company was turning off huge tracts of electricity to people and businesses in order to minimize fire danger.  Our daughter Amy in Ohio actually found us a room in Mt. Shasta which we booked immediately.  The photo at the top of this post was our view from the restaurant the next morning.  We drove up the little town to get a closer photo.  It was COLD there in the morning, 31 deg.

After breakfast we were back on the road towards home.. Dayle snapped this photo as we drove away from the mountain.

Further north, looking back at the mountain across the pastures and hills.

The hills were dotted with gold and orange oak trees, it was beautiful.

Northern California is vast countryside with farms and cattle ranches.. and a lot of horses.

When we pulled into our driveway, John had our little girl out for a walk.. she was very happy to see us!  Shirley had a nickname for her, "Mochaccino"!  We had a nice chat with them before they headed home.  Thank you, John and Shirley for taking good care of our little darling dog.

We've been resting up and getting back into our regular schedule.  The Christmas cactus I rescued from my mother's room at the assisted living facility before she passed away was blooming when we got home.  So pretty.

Shirley had some fun with my dollhouse while we were gone, actually she dusted it for me and arranged everything.  I just took some photos of the rooms and will share them on Friday.  Thanks for visiting!!  What are you up to today?  ((hugs)), Teresa :-) 

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