I’ve started this blog early, so Rich isn’t awake yet.  I’m sure he will be in a half an hour. For those who don’t know, Rich told me that the most important event every day has been that he woke up on the right side of the grass. I woke up early today for some […]

Rich woke up again today.  Just can’t say that enough. Noises start early at the John Muir Lodge.  I got the guys up and moving at 8:00 to start the day. We went down for breakfast at the restaurant.  Nothing big to speak of.  Just regular breakfast stuff. We checked in at the Visitor’s Center […]

Rich woke up again today! Hurray! I also woke up, but not voluntarily.  I first opened my eyes to the sound of a very loud conversation outside of my window, in French.  Then a couple of little girls were chanting, “We are up, we are up!”  No kidding. Slowly the noises got more frequent and […]

We started fairly early with breakfast up at the lodge.  I got the biscuits and gravy along with Rich.  Rick went for the French toast, which looked good, too.  We had Michael again.  Not too bad on the service this time. We headed up the very winding and hilly road to the park.  This time, […]

 Rich woke up again today! The guys tried to sleep in again today, but we had things to go and do.  We might be on vacation, but we have limited time that we are here to see the sites.  Up, up with you two. We went to the restaurant here as usual for breakfast.  Lately, […]

I’m running a little late with this  entry.  I don’t have regular WiFi connection here in Yosemite.  Oh yeah, and Rich woke up  on this day, too. We left San Francisco to head out to the wilderness in Yosemite National Park.  I’ve never been to Yosemite, so this will allow me to mark off yet another […]

Rich woke up again this morning. It’s a great day for a vacation. The guys tried to sleep in this morning. I let them go until 8:00, but we needed to hit the road.  Today, we were driving into San Francisco.  The drive was only a couple of hours, but I felt like we had a lot to do when […]

Today started out cold yet again.  Isn’t this supposed to be summer?  Listening to the weather on TV, the western part of the U.S. was experiencing temperature 30 degrees below normal.  You would know this would happen on my vacation.  And it was upper 80s and 90s back in Chicago! We left Park City this […]

I came up with a little animation of Rick moving the tassel on his mortar board.  I had to wait for Rick to complete the animation.  I finally got today.  This is cute. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8KXt5WDz0j0&feature=channel&list=UL