We're Heeeeere!

We arrived in Santa Clara around 6 last night after what was my favorite day of the trip!  Yesterday we woke up in Mammoth Lake, had some breakfast and took the gondola to the top of the mountain.  I think this face explains how Blythe felt about the gondola ride...

 Here's everyone checking out the view...

 We rode back down and stopped in town to pick up some lunch for the road when along came this guy...

      He very carefully looked both ways before crossing the road and heading up some stairs towards an Italian restaurant.  I assume he was going for pizza.   Everyone acted like this was perfectly normal.  They just stopped where they were and let him go by.  

      Then we hit the road which just so happened to run straight through Yosemite National Park.  I will admit I've never given it much thought, but it is truly incredible.  This was just one of at least 50 lakes we drove by that all looked like this.

 We stopped to play for a bit.  Joe could've stayed there all day just splashing and throwing rocks.

We are all very glad to be done with the driving portion of our adventure.  Today we are heading over to the apartment to see our new home for the first time.  We've got some errands to run to get a little more settled before Caleb goes to work in the morning.   Now on to the actual living in California part!!