Romantic Getaway to California

In March we celebrated our 9yr anniversary. My parents and Brett’s parents watched the kids for the weekend and I flew over to meet Brett in California where he had to work for 10 days. I left on Friday morning and Brett picked me up at the airport and we exchanged rental cars for the weekend. We got a Nissan 350Z. Since we didn’t have the kids we went for the 2 seater sports car!
Then we went to the new Sacramento Temple. It was beautiful inside! We did sealings, it was a great way to remember our marriage vows and blessings from 9 yrs ago. Then we headed to Yosemite National Park. We made several stops along the way so we didn’t get in until about 1 am. We rented a nice cabin in Yosemite it was a 3 bedroom cabin but we just used the downstairs room. It had a big family room and kitchen with a fireplace and a big balcony. We were in the middle of the forest surrounded by trees.Saturday morning we spent the day enjoying the beautiful scenery around Yosemite National Park. We did a few little hikes. We went to Bridal Veil falls, Yosemite Falls and Vernal Falls. The waterfalls were really flowing this time of year because all the snow is melting off. There was still quite a bit of snow around and the park was beautiful. We really enjoyed the day! We met up with some of the guys Brett works with from Ireland and England, I love to hear their Irish/English accents! I love to travel, it is so much fun to see new beautiful places and meet new people and new cultures. Sunday morning we looked out the window and had a fresh coat of snow on everything. It was really beautiful. We packed up and headed back to Sacramento. The drive was beautiful with lots of windy roads, Brett had too much fun driving that sports car! He made me a little car sick! On the way back we went the the Big Trees National Park and walked around and saw the Giant Redwood trees. They are huge, they are as old as dinosaurs (well maybe not quite that old I think the oldest one recorded was 2200 yrs old so the oldest living thing on earth) and grow up to 325 feet tall and as big across as 35 feet! We made it back to the airport on time, Brett dropped me off because he had to stay to work another couple days. We had so much fun! It was nice to have an anniversary getaway without the kids and I hope we can do it more often!

This was a huge tree stump I was standing on....big enough for a bowling alley! These trees are amazingly huge!