It was cooler outside than inside last night and there was news of a Thunderstorm coming into Fresno. After dinner and ice cream (YES! I finally went and got what I was craving a while back!!! That’s Da Count worthy in itself!) we went back to the house and watched some Animal Planet. The door was open and sudden flashes of light were off in the distance.
We went outside and saw lightening flash, we could see the clouds light up. It was an odd time because you couldn’t yet hear the thunder, and it wasn’t raining. I remember years back lying on my bed with my mom and watching a thunderstorm pass by, it was beautiful. As the lightening was coming closer, your senses were engaging one at a time. You could see the lightening and clouds. Then came the smell of rain, that wonderful smell of wet dirt and rain. You could feel the gusts of wind rolling through the valley, blowing out the dust kicked up in the different fields. You could also feel the growing static in the air, the feeling of lightening about to strike and when it does, there was heat. Finally the storm reached Fresno and you could hear the rolling thunder in response to the cracking lightening. The storm dissipated as the thunderclouds collapsed on themselves leaving a less than expected rain (we thought it was going to be a gnarly violent storm) that helped us go to sleep.
It’s always neat to see nature in ways you don’t always get a chance to see. A local news station has pics you can check out of the storm, but here’s one to wet your whistle on:
Those crazy cats over at 
The dam was really flowing with all the snow melt!
View from the trail from the other side of the dam
A very calm Western Rattlesnake that was about 500 yards into the hike. He was about 3 feet and the rattles say he’s about 11 years old.
About half way to the waterfall. You could hear the roaring water echo off the opposite wall of the valley.
Rainbow off the mist from the waterfall.
Standing to the left of the waterfall.
Standing to the right of the waterfall.
We got saoked from the waterfall so we sat on a rock and ate some lunch and this is the view.
Saying goodbye to Yosemite from the back window of the Mountain-Bot.
This weekend brings Memorial Day and a holiday is always worth celebrating. Things are getting started tonight with a MAY Birthday Party at the Grill, HAPPY BIRTHDAY JAY!!!
I’ve been craving the yummy cold ice cream treat for a while now… and I think I’m going to actually buckle down and go get some after work today! Yummy!!!
Tell me what you think about the albums 
Curiosity has killed the cat, will it be the next obsession where all the books in the series must be consumed at an alarming speed? We’ll see… I’ll tell you how it is.
So I can be on Halo’s level. 
Last night we went to see Star trek on the IMAX… it was cool. I continually misreferenced Star Trek and Star Wars… LOL. There was a trio of Trek fans (I wouldn’t say Trekkies though) who were ahead of us in the line and they kept on correcting me, which egged me on to make more jokes about it. Halo told me, if any of the Trekkies started to beat me up he’d watch… LOL.
My Da Count is those Star Trek fans that were able to laugh at my mistakes and jokes, assume that Halo was taking me to the movie I had NO idea about (although I’ve seen all the Trek movies, I just couldn’t get Star Wars outta my head), and for an over all great movie. You gotta love a promised action packed movie that delivers.
