Yosemite Rose B&B | A snippet of Yosemite National Park

I hope you are enjoying these posts so far! This trip was the longest I've ever taken since coming to London? I want to document our adventures and be able to share with you in the process too.

Enough of scary roads from the last post.

We both loved the B&B we stayed in. It's so well kept and people are so friendly. We made friends with a Canadian family and especially the father of the family called Don who owns the B&B. He is 75 and kept chatting with us, telling us stories of everything he can think of really. He was very enthusiastic to introduce us to the other guests "this young couple are from Singapore but they both work in London. England." He always had to clarify it's England. I think it's because there is also a city called London in Canada. He told us he loves to talk to young people - he loves to see the drive in young people's eyes; "they have so much potential" he said.

I guess being Singaporeans where food is very important, we stocked up on quite an amount of food in our car whilst in Walmart as we didn't know how ulu this B&B was. And so we decided that for the second night we would finish up whatever we could instead of finding some eatery in town. Don saw us in their dining hall and came over for another chat. He gave us good grandfatherly advice and said we have to always remember 3 things in life: 1) To think for yourself and not be a follower; 2) Get as much knowledge as possible because knowledge is power; and lastly 3) Be able to defend yourself, mentally and physically. He said he has taught his children, and now grandchildren these values in life. No doubt he has raised a strong family- he should be so proud. (Funny K and I still remember his golden words - we were doing a recap today!)

Breakfast time in the conservatory surrounded by lavender flowers which smelt so nice.

Oh and at night, the night sky blew us away. I have never seen a sky lit up with thousands of stars. And we.saw.the.milky.way, people. Seriously I was in awe of the blanket of stars above me. Don brought us to the garden where they had some chairs, no doubt for star gazing. He pointed out some prominent stars to us and said "the cloudy area you see there? Yup, that's the milky way." WHOA.

I didn't have the best camera to capture them but this is what I managed on the second night.
It was quite cloudy so we saw fewer stars that night

I suddenly recalled the bible verse in Genesis which said God showed Abram the stars and promised him descendents.

http://www.yosemiterose.com/index.html

From the B&B we had to drive about 30min to the entrance of Yosemite.

We were excited as we saw a Q of people waiting patiently to take photos with this sign.
Little did we know the drive into the visitor lodge was an hour from here.