7th Day - Yosemite

Tuesday the 19th, many people's favorite day of the trip so far. We left our previous hotel at 8 o'clock in the morning and started a solid 4 hour drive with one short break. The ride was not so exhausting since the view by the road was the most amazing so far, and as a matter of fact many people spent those hours sleeping. When we arrived the national park, we saw a couple of huge waterfalls. And this was just the beginning. We drove through a valley between huge cliffs, and as a Finnish person I would call those mountains. The view from the bus was just breath taking.

The bus dropped us off at a little village in the valley, close to the tallest waterfall in the US. Everybody gathered their stuff and we walked to a picnic spot that was a mile away from the village. The picnic area was by a beautiful stream that came down from the mountains, and the water was crystal clear and super cold. After our nice picnic we decided to walk in the stream, take pictures and even go swimming. When you got used to the cold water (=your body got numb) swimming felt really nice and refreshing, since the air temperature was close to a 100°F. We threw football around, laid in the sun, and just had a great time at the stream. After a couple of hours we decided to go to take a closer look to the waterfall.
The coolest part of the day was probably the visit to the waterfall. The waterfall stands at 2425ft, and watching the water falling from the skies just makes the time stop. A handful of us climbed up the big rocks to get a closer look to the bottom of the waterfall, and I have to admit that after climbing up to the little pond on the bottom of the fall, we felt pretty exhausted. All of us got some great pictures, and eight of us climbed up above the pond and got a perfect view of the valley and the surroundings. The climb to the cliff took a little longer than we excpected, so we got back to the bus at the last minute. We drove for fifteen minutes and stopped at a scenic overlook of the valley. We took a group picture and some awesome individual pictures (like us) and after that we went to have a biffee (=buffet) dinner. We arrived at the hotel around nine, and swam in the pool for half an hour. Everybody was in their rooms by curfew (except us, because we are the bloggers=cool).

By: Joona, Robert, Prinze/Derick, Sharp