In celebration of America's 234th birthday, the Sivitz clan headed up to Yosemite and spent the weekend with Sarah's cousin Mimi and her family. It was a wonderful time. Aside from the wonderful BBQ birthday party for Mimi's daughter Syndey's 6th birthday, we had a wonderful time sharing the company of family and hiking in the park. For our lone day in the park we had a nice picnic in the meadow and choose to hike to the top of Vernal falls along the "Mist Trail". The weather was perfect and because of the ample amount of winter rain and snow the waterfalls and river of snowmelt was still flowing impressively stronger making for some excellent views. Unfortunately the strong flow also made the mist trail more of a downpour trail and as we ascended the spray from the corresponding falls became so strong that Claire quickly became extremely wet. To make matters worse it was a fairly cool day
and we quickly realized she was shivering and unhappy. You'd think we'd have figured this out before she started wailing, but alas her parents aren't the brightest individuals in the world when it comes to knowing Claire's limits. Needless to say we than quickly reversed our course and got Claire to some dry land in the sun. Lucky for us she quickly perked up and began chasing one of the parks many squirrels. Later in the day Claire also got to experience her first 4th of July fireworks (we were in London last year) from a lovely vantage point on a hillside in Mariposa, CA. Claire showed now fear and simply stared and pointed as the loud bangs continued in the background.
In celebration of America's 234th birthday, the Sivitz clan headed up to Yosemite and spent the weekend with Sarah's cousin Mimi and her family. It was a wonderful time. Aside from the wonderful BBQ birthday party for Mimi's daughter Syndey's 6th birthday, we had a wonderful time sharing the company of family and hiking in the park. For our lone day in the park we had a nice picnic in the meadow and choose to hike to the top of Vernal falls along the "Mist Trail". The weather was perfect and because of the ample amount of winter rain and snow the waterfalls and river of snowmelt was still flowing impressively stronger making for some excellent views. Unfortunately the strong flow also made the mist trail more of a downpour trail and as we ascended the spray from the corresponding falls became so strong that Claire quickly became extremely wet. To make matters worse it was a fairly cool day 
and we quickly realized she was shivering and unhappy. You'd think we'd have figured this out before she started wailing, but alas her parents aren't the brightest individuals in the world when it comes to knowing Claire's limits. Needless to say we than quickly reversed our course and got Claire to some dry land in the sun. Lucky for us she quickly perked up and began chasing one of the parks many squirrels. Later in the day Claire also got to experience her first 4th of July fireworks (we were in London last year) from a lovely vantage point on a hillside in Mariposa, CA. Claire showed now fear and simply stared and pointed as the loud bangs continued in the background. 
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