Celebrating 6 years of wedded bliss

Abby and I celebrated our six-year wedding anniversary this weekend by taking a trip to the beautiful San Juan Islands. (For those of you who don't know, they're local. We didn't travel to another exotic location.) It's hard to beat the Pacific Northwest summers and what our local area has to offer. We spent Friday and Saturday night on San Juan Island - the first night at the Friday Harbor House and the second night at Lakedale Resort.

This is Abby taking a snooze while we waited in line to catch the ferry. We got to the ferry ternminal more than two hours early to ensure that we got on the 3:10 p.m. sailing. If you miss it... let's just say you didn't want to miss it.


It was nearly 80 degrees on Friday, so taking a ride on the ferry through the San Juan Islands was sweet relief. We spent most of the hour-plus ride on the outside deck enjoying the scenery and cool breeze.


Getting ready to enjoy champagne! (Thanks for the bottle, Anne Marie. It's the one you brought back from Italy.)


The Friday Harbor House provided breakfast and an amazing view for us in the morning. We sat outside in the sunshine and enjoyed fritatta, homemade granola, yogurt, muffins, scones, english muffins, cinnamon swirl toast and much more.

During breakfast we enjoyed a view of Friday Harbor. We probably sat outside for nearly two hours just relaxing, chatting and enjoying the morning.


We spent the better part of Saturday touring the island. The Straight of Juan de Fuca is behind us in this picture.


One of Abby's favorite things that we did, aside from staying at the Friday Harbor House, was stopping by the Lavendar Festival. While I don't love the smell of lavendar, I sucked it up and had a good time touring the field of flowers.


Enjoying the views from another vantage point on the island.


We went to Roche Harbor twice on Saturday. Why? Because it's amazing. The first time we walked through and gawked at all the mega-yachts. Honestly, who can afford boats that big? The second time we watched the sunset. The sunset didn't disappoint either.


You won't see any pictures of the Lakedale Resort, where we stayed the second night, because it was a tent camp site. We were really only there for a cheaper place to stay.

Abby and I decided on our way home that this anniversary trip was a compilation of our previous anniversaries. The first night we stayed in a really nice place and the second night we camped - and we've done both for previous celebrations. Kind of funny. We enjoyed it!