Glacier Point at Night

So on Friday night, one of my coworkers and I went up Four Mile Trail so that we’d be up at Glacier Point when it was dark out. I don’t really have much to say about it except that the view was sweet. I mean, Glacier Point during the day is awesome because you can see absolutely everything all around the valley. But at night, we got up there just as the last bit of light was fading away and all the stars were coming out. It was so cool. Imagine yourself in one of those inflatable planetarium things when you can see all of the stars all around you—except that it’s real and there are mountains and you’re sitting on rocks instead of the gym floor—and it’s just completely surreal.

Sunset on the way up Four Mile

View of Half Dome from Glacier Point at Night

Photo: RJ Franklin 

I'm going to butcher this explanation, but my coworker RJ has this thing on his camera where he can leave the shutter open for a certain amount of time and capture all the light and the movement of the stars and stuff. So after fifteen minutes, the picture basically looks like it was daytime—but you can see all the stars' movements and the planes' paths. Pretty sweet!

Also, the pool opened yesterday which meant we spent Thursday carrying everything out from storage, vacuuming, sweeping, scrubbing tile, etc. The maintenance guy was freaking out that we were opening Friday instead of Saturday because he didn’t think we could get everything done…we finished by 1:30 and we started a little after 9:00. So the three of us litter-picked around the tent cabins for a few hours before we went home early.

After discovering that Shelby and I both play/played Ultimate for our college teams, we went to the beach after supper and got the regular volleyball crowd to throw around a disc instead. It was absolutely fantastic! I hadn’t touched a disc in almost a month and I was definitely craving it. Like craving ice cream…only ice cream tastes better.

Yesterday I had the day off, but I still wound up at the pool and just ready my book for like four hours on one of the lounge chairs that I set up. Might have been a little too soon for that because I burned the crap out of my extremely white feet. The rest of me is fine, but I do have a really nice watch line that makes it look like a have a white watch on when I don’t. ;) I’m sure it will only get worse.

Also, I don’t want to disclose too many details, but if you could keep my friend’s mom in your prayers, that would be much appreciated. She just received a very unwanted medical diagnosis that requires immediate surgery to try to remove a tumor on her second vertebrae. So if you’re the praying kind, I know the family would much appreciate the support.

Don’t have much else to say—have a great day everyone! :D