road trip #1

hello!

fuzzy, the dream of poca and pokey is slowly coming true. ask fuzzy or me what the pocapokey dream is someday. but the point is, ROAD TRIP. it sounds so restless right. This is us on the car we rented. I think we look like a bunch of disaffected youth:

it began with a tingly anticpatory 4 hour ride in the soft dusk and dark night to the hotel we stayed in. then we went on this hike up this humongous dome thing and at the beginning of the hike it actually snowed, which was a magical moment, resulting in this picture where we look very cold:

But the summit was worth the hike, and i felt like the queen of the hill looking at the vast valley around us amidst the whipping wind:

Queen of the Valley!

I thought it couldn't get any better, but we went on to Glacier Point, where I felt so insignificant next to jing1 zhen3 tou2 (golden pillow that has a mystical quality over people), the Half Dome:

Then proceeded to feel like a nymph at a pond. We clambered over a million rocks at the site of a waterfall that had frozen or dried up cos of the impending winter, and arrived at a little pool of water. I had to be hauled up a rock longer than me very unglamly cos muscular chim is now flabby humji chim i'm afraid. it was damn fun though, climbing rocks:

this is but a fraction of the rocks.

finally, at the end of the first day at yosemite national park, the world was suddenly bathed in gold and sepia tones as the sun set, and the trees and valley were so gorgeous that as blissful as i was, i couldn't help but ache as you guys weren't there with me. guess i'm forging memories with new people, just as you fuzzy are enjoying the company of those hot roomies of yours hehehe. i can't describe how happy i was, even with the stupid history exam at the back of my head, even with the fatigue in my bones. i was just filled with a glorious warmth, and i wanted you all to feel it too =( i wonder if the people with me felt it too.

ok somehow i can't add more photos so this is it i guess. chim is happy even though chim screwed up history. jo and shu ping, please learn from me and DON'T BE LAST MINUTE all the time. it ruins your body clock. and fuzzy... your housemate is delectable. can i visit you?