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This Spring Break (2018) we flew down to Sacremento, rented a car, and drove to Yosemite National Park. The weather was both good and bad; the bad was that the park was closed on the first day we were supposed to be there, due to rains and flooding. We did get in on Sunday though, the next day. The good was from Sunday on. The waterfalls were flowing, the sun was out, and the temperatures were pretty mild. It was perfect.

We assumed we were ahead of *most* of the crowds on Sunday getting in, and went to the John Muir trail just after lunch. This is supposed to be the busiest trail in the park, and we thought it a good place to start. After seeing Vernal Falls, we returned to the car, and finally checked in to our cabin for night.

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This is normally a little creek, but with the rains and melting snow, was something quite different.
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The same creek, other side of the bridge. Water was cascading down from multiple locations.
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We finally make it into the valley, and this is our first glimpse of Yosemite Falls.
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We continued to the far end of the valley, and stopped at Half Dome Village for lunch.
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There is a cascade of sorts in this picture. There were quite a few scenes like this around the valley.
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Half Dome from the parking lot again.
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Delaney later commented that it was sad, people coming from all over the world, and they "only got to see half a dome".
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After lunch we parked on Southside Dr. just east of Half Dome Village (the road was closed), and walked towards Happy Isles. We also saw a few deer on the way.
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