6 Year Anniversary Weekend!!!!!!!!

Over the weekend Josh and I celebrated our 6 Year Anniversary! So exciting!!! We decided we wanted to do a mini-getaway because I actually had Saturday AND Sunday off (wahooo!) but the only downside was I still had a work meeting Sunday night at 8pm in Fairfield (where all of the other managers live).

So even though I had the weekend pretty much off, we were somewhat limited as to where we could spend the weekend because we had to be back in Fairfield (which is an hour and a half from where I live) by 8pm on Sunday. Sooo we decided that we would spend our anniversary in the capitol of California - Sacramento, which was def. not our first choice, but oh well!

So we started off the weekend by traveling 3 hours to a place called the Moaning Caverns which has a tour down into a huge cavern as well as zip lining which we thought would be fun!

We saw a lot of windmills along the way there...

Going into the cavern!

We had to squeeze through some pretty tight places in order to get down to the bottom!

Here was Josh's favorite part: going down a HUGE spiral staircase that was wobbling from all of the people in it. (Josh is VERY scared of heights)

More tiny stairs, I'm not sure how couch potatoes go on this tour to be honest...

Josh playing it cool like he isn't scared

one of the huge formations in the cavern! It is two stories tall!! crazy!

So a crazy thing happened when we were down in the cavern, a couple offered to take our picture and then I offered to take theirs. So I took the first one then the gf asked if I would take a second and of course I was like sure no problem, but then her bf was like "wait I have a question..." and he totally got down on one knee and proposed!!! So of course with my blogging instincts I just started snapping picture after picture with their camera of the proposal, her acceptance, and their happiness afterwards, it was so neat!!

After all of the proposal excitement Josh and I made the journey back up the spiral staircase of doom, all the while Josh was holding the railing with a death grip haha

Then after the cavern tour we got to go Zip Lining!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! As you can tell Josh wasn't very excited for the Zip Line, but he was willing to try it because he knew how bad I wanted to do it :)

Ready to Zip!

We had to go up to this tree house at the top of the mountain and go across a bouncy bridge to get to the Zip platform. Let's just say that the Zip Line experience was def. put in jeopardy when a bouncy bridge was thrown in the mix -Josh was certainly not happy about having to go across it haha

But we made it to the platform, and despite Josh's fear of heights he handled it like a champ!

The view looking down the line before we took off!

Josh getting all set up. It was neat because we got to zip line at the same time next to each other!

Here is a video I took with my camera of us going down the zip line!! It was so much fun!!

Afterwards Josh said it wasn't as bad as he expected and we both ended up having a great time!!

Then from the Moaning Caverns we drove to Sacramento to our hotel, Le Rivage, which was right on the Sacramento River and it was amazing!!Our Room

A Claw Footed Tub!! So cool!

Our View! There was even a wedding going on while we were there and the bride and groom stayed in the room across from us!

After we got all settled in to our room we changed and went out to dinner at a place called Lucca, which the lady at the front desk recommended- and it was terrible! Oh well. Then we walked around Old Town Sacramento which was neat. We went to one of the old time candy shops!Joshy waking around Old Town!

Then we went back to our hotel and sat by the fire pits near the water for a bit before heading to bed. Then at 5:15 AM our smoke detector kept beeping because the battery was dying and taking the battery out and off of the ceiling didn't make it stop so we had to have some guy from the front desk come and get it which was annoying!

On Sunday, our actual anniversary, we had a quick breakfast in our room and then we headed down to the water to walk around a bit before we left the hotel.

It was such a beautiful day out!

I wish I had more days off like these!

The Sacramento River

Then we went to a really great mall called the Roseville Galleria because I needed more work pants, and we had lunch there and then went to the Sacramento Zoo! It was a smaller zoo but still great to see all of the animals!

Flamingos!

fighting animals!

Omg. I kid you not, I couldn't believe this was happening in front of my eyes. This monkey was POOING into its hand and then IT ATE THE POO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I know it is so gross to take a picture but it is one of those things where no one will believe you unless you have a picture, so here is the proof!

Joshy and some apes!

Me and a Giraffe, perhaps it's Joshua Giraffe?

A hyena!

Then after the zoo we went to the Vacaville outlets to look for some shoes and jeans for Joshy but came up empty handed, then we headed to Cattlemen's for dinner. We had some really yummy food and had an hour to spare before my work meeting so we headed to Super Wal-Mart to do some grocery shopping. While we were there I def. stocked up on a BUNCH of x-mas decor!! :)

After the meeting we came home, totaling 450 miles of driving in 48 hours! The Jetta was really tired and needed a nap! haha

So that was our fun 6 Year Anniversary Adventure!!

-Katie