Nothing Ghostly in the Ghost Town

Earlier today, everybody kinda took the Gondola up to the peak of the mountain. Lazy me decided to just stay inside and walk around the resort. Some went mountain biking and some just hiking. Heard from them that the mountain biking road was really really scary. So glad I never went. Worse thing is they were stuck in the mountain and was so late until they do not have a chance to shower as we have to check out. Ewwwwwww.
So with 3 clean ppl and 6 very muddy pals, we headed up to the ghost town, Bodie State Park. Basically a ghost town is just a deserted small town. These town boomed during the gold rush era. But when they run out of the minerals, people just flee the town. Wild wild west kinda setting. Bodie has a reputation of being a very bad town in which there is full of bad guys and horrible weather. I can totally understand the weather part. It was scorching hot! Quite an eye opener but this is that kind of places that you only go once in your life and never wanna visit it again.

We reched Lake Tahoe pretty late as there is more road work. This time we were completely stopped. There is this long queue of cars along the highway. OMG! The Horizon Hotel in Lake Tahoe was such a letdown, old and too basic. Certainly worth less than the price we pay for. Feeling tired from the hot sunny morning, I went to bed as the others gamble it out at the casino.

Here is the little cowboy story me and Mixue made. Enjoy!

Out of the Haze into the Mountains

The day started super early. 7am OMG! Everyone was like super half asleep. The itinerary was super long today. So many places to visit. I really doubt that we can do it all in time. Lucky that we have a lot of drivers on stand by.

Wonderful morning sky

Visited the Yosemite Falls. Not much water left at the falls as it is already summer. It was like spraying tiny droplets of water down. The walk in the woods to the falls was really refreshing. Although it was hazy outside, the trees really did absorbed all those smoke. This time around I passed on climbing all the way up to the falls. Left the rest to do it. Too lazy to do a detour as I went up the short cut which apparently cut short my hike due to a huge rock blocking the way.

Isn't the water amazingly clear?

Stopped by Yosemite Village for lunch a before heading off to the Toulene Meadows. This place turned out to be my favorite stop. Its really beautiful. Green green grass, bright blue sky, clean clear river with lots of wlidflowers around. Really seems like I'm in those gardens in movies.

Reminds me of some ads in magazines

The beautiful day does not stop there are we move on the Olmsted Point. The view from the vista point is simply enchanting. Borrowed the graduation gown from Alex to take photo there. Lol. Almost everybody did that. So guess i can say I went through my commencement here at Yosemite National Park. Haha.

We finally reached our pit stop at a ski resort at Mammoth Mountain. The elevation was so high that I feel so chilly. As we entered the house, we were greeted by the sight of the wonderful hotel. It is really like a vacation house. Complete with a living room, dinning room, kitchen, 3 full baths, 2 bedrooms and a cute attic with 4 beds. Could really have a party there in the room man. Feel like I wanna stay here for the rest of the Vacation man.

Goldilocks and the 3 Bears?