Yosemite

On Friday night Nathan and I did the 2.5 hour drive to the cutest bed and breakfast just outside of Yosemite. We met our friends from San Jose, the Kindts, there and it was a blast. The couple that owned the house were the sweetest, and the house itself was gorgeous. We hung out with everyone that night and heard some crazy stories from Joe, the house owner, who was a helicopter pilot and Vietnam who has survived 5 different helicopter crashes, crazy! Breakfast the next morning was delicious!

The B&B

Our drive into Yosemite was gorgeous! There was a big snow fall the day before so it looked like we had just entered Narnia. The weather that day had a 60% chance of rain/snow and we prayed for good weather, well there ended up being blue skies, prayers answered!

We made a turn and then all of a sudden we saw El Capitan and Half Dome, we ooh'd and ahhh'd.

Another shot of Half Dome

Half Dome again in the background with Nathan and I.

Spencer and Sadey

Yosemite Falls

The whole gang

It was such a fun little trip, we will be going back to Yosemite for sure!

Monterey with the Kindts

Our good friends the Kindts recently moved to San Jose and we decided to go to Monterey together for the long Labor Day weekend. It was so much fun! We absolutely love hanging out with them. 

Once we got there we got to watch these sea lions while we ate lunch

Boats

Cheesy picture, BFF!

These two have been the best of buds since 2006

She is the funniest person I know

PCH. Seriously how beautiful is that?!

Dolphins frolicking 

The beauty kills me

A nice picnic lunch before our five mile hike into the wilderness

Have you ever seen so much beauty on one blog post?! I couldn't believe it! 

Lake Tahoe

Nathan and I went to Lake Tahoe this weekend. It was gorgeous and the weather was glorious! Too cold to swim but we loved hiking around and admiring natures beauty. Get ready for a picture overload!

A pinecone so big you can play football with it!

Saturday morning we ate at a cute ma and pop breakfast joint

gorgeous Tahoe

a woodpecker 

on a hike

another bird

We enjoyed dinner on the pier

It was such a fun trip and we look forward to returning! 

Austria

Is anyone sick of me blogging about Europe yet?! Well this is the last Europe post! Yay, I did it! Our last day in Austria we went on a beautiful hike. I really wasn't up for hiking but I am very glad I went. Like I've said hundreds of times before about Europe, it was beautiful!

Nathan was tempted several times to cliff jump into the crystal clear water but we knew it was gonna be pretty chilly!

After Austria we had to drive our car back to the Czech Republic to return it. We stopped it a cute city called Czechy Krumlov. We ate lunch there and then back on the road.

Nathan had to get a picture by this car, he loves Kofola!

There are these yellow fields all over Czech Republic and Slovakia. They make oil out of the flowers.

Once we reached Prague we flew back to Istanbul where we stayed another night and went to the Aquarium there. Then we finally arrived back in the US of A!