Yosemite and the trip to Eagle

We started our trip to Eagle when I flew into San Francisco where Grant was waiting.  On Saturday we drove to Yosemite.  We went for a hike in a grove of Giant Sequoias and then drove down to Tunnel Ridge for a nice view of the valley.  The next day we hiked up Vernal and Nevada Falls.  It was quite tiring.  Then we drove to Glacier Point for another nice view.  We also walked around in the Valley and went to a few exhibits.  We saw a mother and cub black bear walking around from the shuttle.  On the was out, we stopped and hiked to Soda Springs and near a lake.  We left through the Tioga Pass into Nevada.  It was very beautiful and not as scary as I thought it would be.  We went to Cedar City, UT and met some friends from RedCliff.  After two nights of hanging out with them, we left for Colorado.  We got to Eagle, but our roomate wasn't home, so we spent the night with some friends.

My Trip Home

I flew back to Austin to see the family.  The entire family came in on Sunday for a Thanksgiving/Christmas meal with everyone.  I got to ride around on Pistol several times which was very fun.  I also saw Kylie's gymnastics and choir concert.  We also went shopping for some new teaching clothes.

The Final Week at the Farm

We wrapped up our work at the farm this week.  We thought for sure that we would be picking and husking corn all week, but we ended up pickings and husking tens of thousands of tomatillos.  We got all the cars packed up before I left on the 18th.  They are extremely full. 

Crater Lake

This week Grant's parents came to visit.  We gave them a tour of the farm, historic Jacksonville, Ashland, and the best part, Crater Lake.  We went out to eat lots of delicious times and played quite a bit of hearts.  Crater Lake was amazingly blue and very beautiful with the snow all around.