Our Battered Suitcases: We Belong Part 2

March 2009
Spring Break in California

Jason and I went to northern California to see a friend, and stay the week for cheap. We flew in to Sacramento then drove up to Humboldt county in my friends little ford focus. Winding roads and a manual car can make for a fun drive! I remember our first day there was...interesting. We had left Minneapolis at an early time. We landed in Sacramento around 11am, and decided we did not want to get lunch yet. We then drove around trying to find the boating house that our friend was having her Crew practice at. We arrived there an hour later and they were out on the water. We waited a couple more hours, and by then it was 3 or 4pm in Minnesota. We were STARVING!


Early morning flights make us silly.

The Ford Focus Megan got to drive


Our campsite the first night in California

I love camping with this man.

Look at what a studly stud he is.

The long-arm-self-portrait-shot

We stopped on the way for a leg stretch.

After we said our Hey-Hellos to Emily we wandered the streets of Sacramento once again. (This was all Pre-GPS) We found a Sizzler. We thought we had hit the jackpot. Later we found out that it's a pretty common restaurant. So we probably should not have excitedly taken pictures of our sub par steaks. Ha! Oh well.

We spent the rest of the week hiking in the Redwood National Forest. Which was amazing and beautiful. We even hiked in an area that a scene from Jurassic Park was filmed in. And we saw some hippies smoking in a tree. That was nice.

That kid is 6'4" with his hands down.

Tree Love!

Fern Gully anyone?

This is our Dear Friend Emily.

When we flew out of Sacramento we went to the capital and saw Arnold (said with an accent of course). He wasn't actually there, but we peaked in his office just in case!

We went out for a nice dinner on the bay.

Ooo pretty!

August 2010
Honeymoon in Bar Harbor Maine
We were married on May 22, 2010. It was a beautiful day! We had decided that we wanted to go to Bar Harbor Maine for our honeymoon. We found a little 2 person cabin in the woods and we stayed for a week. We knew that we wanted to wait for our honeymoon. We did not want to feel rushed after our wedding. So we planned the trip for August, and it was a wonderful little vacation!

We drove the entire way. Something like 36 hours. We drove the first 24 hours straight through. We landed in upstate New York and stayed at a friends house. Thanks Katie! We spent the next 12 or 20 hours relaxing with Katie and other friends from upstate. We met our good friends husband for the first time and we had a blast! (Thanks Ryan and Kasey for being so cool!) We are excited to be a teeny-tiny bit closer to that couple.

We drove the rest of the way and had a great week. We hiked acadia national park, we kayaked in the ocean, we pretended to not be so out of shape that biking was killing us, and we acted like the tourists that we were!