Celebrate good times, C’mon!  It’s our one year anniversary of being married on July 5th!  We postponed our trip to last weekend and to celebrate we head toward the northern part of California.  It was Julie’s only second time in that part of the country and so we thought it was a good time to do it while watching our wallets at the same time.  To get to northern California, we went through Pacific Coast Hwy along the coast of beautiful California overlooking the Pacific Ocean.  I had done this drive before but it was first for Julie and I feel like it’s something everybody should do it at least once in their lifetime.  In my opinion, it’s the best stretch of road in America and I’ve driven through A LOT if not most of the American highway system, at least the major ones.

That drive took us most of the day to get to San Francisco.  Here are my collage from our drive on PCH.  I think I took most, if not all of the beautiful scenery on the hwy.

After getting to San Francisco, we spent a day doing the touristy stuff.  San Francisco is one of the coolest cities in America and always enjoy just walking and taking photos of the beautiful city.  It definitely has it’s own characteristic that makes San Francisco, well San Francisco.  From their sourdough bread (something Julie was looking the most forward to) to their huge Chinatown to their beautiful city landscape with their Golden Gate Bridge and of course The Rock, Alcatraz.

And to finish off our trip, we headed to the world famous Napa Valley!  It was my first experience while it was second time for Julie.  The view was just incredible and definitely a piece of Tustin in America.  We had our tour of Robert Mondavi Winery and experienced some high-quality wine!  I must admit that we learned a lot about wine and wine-making since we’re both not real wine drinkers but it was worth the experience.

We chilled out in Sonoma’s small town before driving 7 hours back home to Orange County.  That drive was a killer after a full day in Napa but we made it safe and thoroughly enjoyed our short but sweet first anniversary of our wonderful marriage. =) HAPPY ONE YEAR!!

These are our honeymoon photos that I took in Maui.  As I’m looking at these, I can’t believe we are a month or so short of our One Year Anniversary and our beautiful trip to Maui.  It is the most expensive trip that I’ve been part of and the most memorial one at that.  It was a great way to start off our marriage and can’t wait to see where God will lead us! =)

The stars are incredible.  I felt like I was literally on the top of the world.  It’s the beauty of God’s creation at its best.

Shouldn’t this be a postcard or something?  It’s so Hawaii.

The motion of the waves coming in. Love it!

The footprints of Julie. Love it!