5 Years in the Making!!

September 3 we were able to celebrate our 5th year wedding anniversary!! I can't believe time has flown by. We were able to go to Fort Bragg, California and explore the Red Woods. We left on our trip not knowing where we were going to stay or what we were going to do when we got there. It was just going to be a spontaneous adventure. We finally got into Fort Bragg about 10:30 at night after driving through the windiest road I have ever driven!!! All in all we had a great trip spending time with eachother and exploring the northern California coast. The only thing we were not satisfied with was it was not crab season so we weren't able to get any crab. :(

Climbing the rocks and exploring the beach in Fort Bragg.

This seaweed was HUGE!! I had never really touched seaweed or held it. It was extremely heavy and felt like rubber.

Glass Beach. In the 1940's the community used this beach as their dump. They would bring all their trash and push it into the ocean. It wasn't until the 60's when they realized that throwing trash into the ocean probably wasn't such a good idea. They tried to clean up the ocean as much as possible but there are still remains of the trash. The beach is made up of different colors of broken and smoothed glass. There are also a lot of petrified trash that looks like rocks. It was pretty cool to see.

Spark plugs and trash embeddded into the rocks.

Glass Beach

We did some exploring and tried to take a hike around the coast but the trail wasn't really well marked so we just walked and made our own little trails. :)

We were at the top of a cliff and Cody saw this huge star fish in the water. We hiked down and he climbed in the water and pulled him off the rocks.

We got to have a private sunset Sea Kayaking tour. We were able to see seals, sea birds, and a sea lion was following us for quit a while. He was huge and would scare me every time he would come up out of the water!! It was absolutely gorgeous.

The drive to the Red Woods was about 3 hours north of where we were. That was a little longer drive than we had thought be we decided to just do it!! We went down the Avenue of Giants and was amazed of the beauty of all of God's creations.


This tree is a famous drive through tree. I have always wanted to drive through a tree. We had a great trip just being with each other celebrating our 5 happy years of marriage!!