It's now Monday afternoon & we have done some mileage since my last post, having travelled from Frisco all the way to the Yosemite National Park on Sunday. We had quite a way to go once in Yosemite, as we are spending two nights at Mammoth Lakes, the other side of the park. If you check out my photos on Facebook, you will understand why they named this area Mammoth......the mountains are, well, mammoth! We got in rather late last night and had a late supper at a Mexican restaurant: tacos, quesadillas, burritos with chipotle sauce - yarriva yarriva! Our waiter was the real thing and a wonderful salesman, he could sell snow to an Eskimo, I reckon! Anyway, this morning, we caught a hop on hop off shuttle bus up into the mountains where we saw the most breathtaking scenery, & walked another thousand miles & back to see the beautiful Rainbow Falls- no kidding, there was a real rainbow across the waterfall. This park is so incredibly organized to cope with the multitudes - most of their tourists come here in winter for ski sports & one can imagine how amazing it must be when everything is covered with snow. However, we will definitely give that a miss in the light of some of the info fed to us on the bus, like an avalanche which cut a swathe through the forest about 20 meters wide. We also saw hundreds of enormous trees which had been ripped out of the ground by a frightening cyclone two years ago. Note to self: don't visit Yosemite in winter!! Stay home!!