Our Mammoth Lakes Trip!

Sam and I just can't resist going on trips to the mountains! We just got back (ok, we've actually been home for like a week now) from spending 3 days in Mammoth Lakes with my family. My family rented a condo and we had a good little time. It was a QUICK trip (cursed Sam's lack of days off!), but it was well worth it. Here are just a few of our pics from our trip.

Kyle and Amanda had the privilege (heheeh...aka, they were carless) of driving around with us for the weekend. Here are the two love birds as we're parking to go run into a store (we had a catastrophe...one of my rubber bands broke on one of my pigtails as we were driving to Mammoth Mountain.... so we had to go find a store!).

We took a gondola ride (which was pretty scary, I might add) up to the top of Mammoth Mountain, with an elevation of 11,000. In this pic, we're looking down on the Mammoth valley from on top of the mountain.

This is a picture looking at the mountains that are near Yosemite National Park, from on top of Mammoth Mountain. After we took numerous pictures, we also had a nice little picnic with quite a view!!

Ah! The ever wonderful close-up of the photographer.....ME!! Notice the pigtails are all in place, thanks to the rubber bands we found at a local store!! Woohoo!! This was taken from Mammoth Mountain.


**Caution! This picture may be too hot for some of you to handle!**Here Sam is flexing his muscles. I think the mountains make him feel all masculine. Nice hat dear! Men and their sense of fashion!!

After we went to Mammoth Mountain, we went to Devil's Postpile. Here they have the oddest looking hexagon shaped rocks! Oh well! It makes for an interesting picture!

Sam and I are taking a break from hiking in Devil's Postpile. We found a cute little bridge and stream here and so we wanted to take some pictures by it!

My parents resting in the shade at Devil's Postpile. I think Sam's odd fashion sense is rubbing off on my Dad. My Dad lifted the edges of his hat up because he thought it looked "cool", and you KNOW you can't argue with a lawyer (did ya like that joke Dad? Hahahaha!).

On our second day in Mammoth, we went to Yosemite National Park for the day. It was beautiful, but I don't think it was the right time of year to go. Most of the waterfalls had already dried up and it was close to 100 degrees in the park. We're hoping to go earlier in the summer next year to see the waterfalls and the nicer weather.

All in all, it was a great trip. Alas, my summer has come to an end. School starts tomorrow and so that'll be the end of our trips for a while. But, what a good summer it's been!