Anniversary Glamping at Big Basin Redwood State Park

November 1^st, our 4 year anniversary, turned out to be a bust! School and life make celebration of such events a bit on the difficult side. So to redeem the occasion Kimber and I decided to celebrate the next weekend away from home. Ordinarily an anniversary would be celebrated in some nice hotel being pampered, eating fancy food and whatnot. While we aren't completely against that, we were aching for something different. After much thought, we decided to use the anniversary funds to go on a glamping trip.  Glamping, shorthand for glamorous camping, isn’t something that either of us are very familiar with. I think that it is fair to say that I am not even a very good camper. Camping usually consists of driving to the adventurous place that we have chosen to partake in the exciting activity, stopping for fast food on the way, arriving late, throwing our sleeping pads on the ground next to the car and sleeping. Unless of course it is raining then we either set up a quick tiny tent or sleep in the car if there is room amongst all of the gear. If we are going to camp in the future with a family we better actually learn to camp, so we gave it a shot, glamorous like. We took a trip to good’ole Sports Authority and Walmart for supplies and it turned out pretty good. 

Notice the extension cord running to the DVD player in the tent.

Complete with sheets, huge air mattress and memory foam topper.

Dutch oven chicken and biscuits.

Boys scouts paying off. 

Huge'ole Redwood!

Even though it was a bit colder that we had thought it would be and rained most of the night we had a great time. It was pretty awesome not to have cell phone or internet service and just 'hanging out' with each other, just the two of us. I even got up and got in a 14 mile run through the beautiful trails and green. Best anniversary to date!