It was a mixed weekend. The best of times, the worst of times......
1. Golf.....hubby was very very disappointed. He went to the course he has been going to for year, www.sierrameadows.com in Ahwanee. The price had gone up - $65 for a weekday (he later found out that they apparently gave him a discount cause he was told it is usually $75). First of all the golf cart was falling apart. Literally. Wish I had taken a photo. But the padded seat was loose from the frame. Then it was lunch time......don't step between a hungry man and his food! He ordered a ham and cheese sandwich. Easy peasy right? Two guys came in behind him and ordered cheeseburgers. They got their lunch. He is still waiting. When he asked about his sandwich he was told she "forgot about it". 1/2 an hour for lunch totally breaks your mojo....at least that is what he says. Says he was playing great on the front nine. Then he got onto the back nine and the 3 some in front was holding him up....he was playing alone.....they offered to let him join, he asked to play thru (apparently it is common courtey for this) they wouldn't let him. So (knowing him he had lost his temper long about lunchtime) his game fell apart and he ended up quitting 3+ hours into the game. 3 holes from the finish....he was not a happy camper to say the least.
2. Coarsegold Peddlers Fair... we love this place. Use to love the Antique Show in Oakhurst but that dwindled and went by the wayside years ago. So we discovered this. It use to take us several hours to walk thru it and look at all the antiques/vintage/collectibles/trash. Well, for whatever reason it is getting smaller....thot it was small last year - ha! This year there was a lot of junk...plain ole made in China junk. And I was so looking forward to lemonade and funnel cake - and they weren't there. Anyway....with lunch and all we were done in 2 hours. Bummer. http://www.northforkvue.com/entertainment/193739/2014-annual-peddlers-fair-in-the-coarsegold-historic-village-coming-on-memorial-day-weekend/
3. Yosemite... we ALWAYS go into Yosemite on the Sunday of Memorial Day Weekend. Always. And we know it is going to be busy but still......it was a disaster this year! I have never seen it so crowded - and most of the crowd were brainless, rude people! We rode our bikes around the Valley and I don't know how many times we had to come to a screeching stop because a group would just stop and block the path while the talked or looked at maps! Really???? Or people walking who would not move out of the way. So we decided to take a 2 hour tour......at 2 PM we figured we would be done, change our clothes, and head out of the valley to make our 6:30PM dinner reservations....HA! Our 2 hour tour, well, we got our money's worth cause it last 4 HOURS!!!! It then took up 2.5 hours to get back to Oakhurst with the majority of that time trying to wind our way around the valley floor....and having to wait for all those much more important people who do not have to follow the traffic laws because their time/life is so much more important than anyone else. Oh yeah, our wonderful special dinner was pancakes for me and a BLT for husband at Denney's!
4. Katie's Country Kitchen - we ate here for the first time last year (mainly because the breakfasts were so terrible at the place we use to stay at - the Narrow Gauge Inn (http://www.narrowgaugeinn.com/) - and wondered why we had never eaten there before! The food was wonderful! So hubby wanted pancakes so we ditched the breakfast at the B&B (and the breakfasts there were fine!) to go here.....BIG MISTAKE! My guess is when they heard that Denney's was going in the owners sold quickly.......my husband had undercooked sausage, GRITTY pancakes, syrup in the packages from McDonalds....my eggs were ok, but I think the English Muffin was at least a week old and very obviously NOT Thomas'....and I don't think they understand what HOT tea means......and while we were there I checked my email (we had very sporadic service up in the hills) and found a notice from a CC company that we rarely use - in fact, haven't used at all this year. Well, someone had taken 2 taxi rides in Sweden for over $200!!!!!!!!! And some other charges.....what a way to start the day!
5. The Met Cinema (http://www.sierranewsonline.com/index.php?option=com_k2&view=item&id=1317:mission-to-save-the-met-cinema&Itemid=467). When we first started going up to this area there was a theater in Bass Lake. It was sooooo neat....had a tree growing right in the middle of it! And the seating was so steep you felt like you were going to take a header when you were going down the stairs. But it closed. So we would drive into Oakhurst to the Met. An old theater - small theater, old seats. But CHEAP movies! Maybe not first run but not too bad. Guess they started going broke and in fact closed down. So they came up with the idea of saving it by making it into a "membership theater". Yeah, I had never heard of this either. But you pay a certain amount of money each month and you get to see unlimited movies. Great idea - and it saved the theater! But if you are a tourist, you are screwed - unless you are going to be there for more than one day. To go to a movie you have to buy a One Day Membership for $16!!!!! and then another $7 or more for your 'guest'. But it is all good - you can go to as many movies as you want in that one day! But $23 for one movie + drinks + eats - really????? That is far more than we pay here!!!
Ok, so it wasn't a total loss.....
1. Chukchansi Casino http://www.chukchansigold.com/....hubs likes to go and gamble a little (and I mean a little; he takes a small amt of cash and that is all he uses) while I sit in the lobby and read or knit. He came back to me relatively quickly this time not looking happy at all.....but he couldn't maintain the look! He won $900! But then after that he couldn't win much. So we headed into the buffet and had dinner. Then we left to go to a movie (see above)..... the last movie of the day at 6:45 PM.......do you think we paid all that money to see ONE movie??? You are so right.....we went back to the B&B, drank some wine, and watched some TV! And Tuesday we went and saw the movie here for much less than that price!
2. Yosemite....Yosemite is still beautiful.....water in the waterfalls and rivers....some dogwood still blooming....lupines....something called a snowplant which I couldn't see because of the man sitting next to me on the tram who blocked me from leaning forward OR leaning back....lots of mule deer and birds.....
3. The Hounds Tooth Inn http://houndstoothinn.com/ Very very nice place. If you are ever in the area.....the new manager's first day was Friday when we checked in. Very nice family. Clean place. Nice and quiet (you barely hear the highway right above you). Breakfasts were decent. Wine and cheese in the evenings.
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I am so sorry that your weekend was "eh." I hate it when you go back to someplace you have always enjoyed only to discover that it has been downsize, rightsized or closed. We have done that too many times to count.
We visited Yosemite in 1980, the year we got married. We also visited the Grand Canyon, Bryce, Zion and many others. I have a pic that Dave took of Half Dome on my family room wall.
In 2006, we loaded up the kid and tried a revisit. So many of the parks only do bus tours now. Also, there had been a mudslide on the entrance on the east side of Yosemite and we weren't able to get in. They suggested that we drive around and come in the west entrance but also, by the way, because of the mudslide our campsite wasn't available. We passed.
Maybe we will do it again someday.
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