{"id":749,"date":"2009-12-05T01:01:36","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T08:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=749"},"modified":"2009-12-05T01:01:36","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T08:01:36","slug":"yosemite-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=749","title":{"rendered":"Yosemite weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a long weekend just before Thanksgiving up near <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Yosemite_National_Park\">Yosemite National Park<\/a> at a rustic spot called the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evergreenlodge.com\/\">Evergreen Lodge<\/a>.  With no telephones, no television, hardly any internet access, and family activities including a kids&#8217; recreation room, it was a great break.  We went on hikes each day, including seeing the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Autumn_leaf_color\">fall foliage<\/a> and having a picnic alongside <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hetch_Hetchy_Reservoir\">Hetch Hetchy Reservoir<\/a> in Yosemite,\u00a0which is the source of much of the Bay Area&#8217;s drinking water. \u00a0Juliet experienced snow for the first time, and Claire threw her first snowball, on our hike down to the\u00a0Tuolumne Grove of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sequoiadendron\">Giant Sequoias<\/a>. Claire also enjoyed her first <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S'more\">s&#8217;more<\/a>.  For a slideshow, click on either the photo of us in front of Hetch Hetchy or the picture of all my girls playing in the snow.<br \/>\n<a class=\"toggleborder\" title=\"slideshow\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/22311334@N00\/sets\/72157622784817789\/show\/\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<table style=\"font-size: 75%; text-align: center\" title=\"Our trip to Yosemite\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"15\" width=\"100%\" summary=\"Table showing two of our photographs from Yosemite\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2500\/4148015035_20b54013b0_m.jpg?resize=180%2C240\" alt=\"Hiking at Hetch Hetchy reservoir\" width=\"180\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<td><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"centered\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2722\/4148789044_c84b31dc04_m.jpg?resize=171%2C240\" alt=\"Playing in the snow\" width=\"171\" height=\"240\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We spent a long weekend just before Thanksgiving up near Yosemite National Park at a rustic spot called the Evergreen Lodge. With no telephones, no television, hardly any internet access, and family activities including a kids&#8217; recreation room, it was a great break. We went on hikes each day, including seeing the fall foliage and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/?p=749\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yosemite weekend<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,20,35],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-claire","tag-juliet","tag-travel"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5eQE-c5","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfamilyblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}