Kimmy's First Hike

This picture is of the base of Vernal Falls...with my new fangle camera that does a panoramic picture!!!

After our Saturday full of horseback riding, we decided that another day filled with riding a 800lb animal probably would kill us.  Therefore, we decided to go on a hike in Yosemite!! Yeah okay it still isn't the most relaxing decision, but we were so close and Kimmy had never seen Yosemite, so we had to go.  We decided to hike Vernal Falls...which I didn't quite remember involving so much climbing, but it did!! Its about a three mile hike round trip, with almost all uphill on the way there (oh and 700 stairs you have to climb too).  Tori and I had failed to mention these details to Kimmy... but Kimmy failed to mention the tiny detail that this was going to be her first hike in her life. (What they do in Florida, I have no idea ;0)) Kimmy decided to tell us this fact about half way up.  I thought Kimmy was going to stop a few times and say screw it.  But we all made it to the top!! At the end of the hike Kimmy said " I thought I was going to stop and turn around about 40 percent of the time." Priceless. But it was well worth the soreness we had for the next few days... the view was beautiful!! Also Tori and I climbed down to where the water from the falls lands... it was so beautiful!! I wanted to jump in, but I got nervous and figured Mikey would probably not be too happy (neither would Tori).  It was a lot of fun and Kimmy had a good time on her very first hike (although she did have a peg leg for work the next couple of days).  After we got done with the hike we treated ourselves to a crab and steak dinner... SO SO GOOD!!!! That night we drove home to spend Memorial Day with the boys at Tori's house... let me tell you there are not that many Starbucks open late on the way home from Yosemite ;0)

Start of the hike... those of you who think Kimmy is more girly than Tori may be surprised here.  Tori brought hairspray and was looking in the mirror for about 15 minutes to make sure her buns were equal before a hike!!! lol I still love you Tor!!

This is after the first leg of the trail...yup we were all out of breath at this point.

We made it to the top!!! We decided to take our shoes off and enjoy the freezing water for a while.

Finally, only four hours later and very hungry, we made it back to our car!