Our first destination was Valencia. We went to Magic Mountain and got our fill of roller coasters. Then David took me on a more detailed walking tour of where he grew up. We had driven by his old neighborhood a few times, but this was the first time we had gotten out of the car and walked around. We ate at our favorite restaurant in Valencia, Grand Panda.
After dinner we drove to Santa Barbara. It's a beautiful drive through rolling hills, orange groves, vineyards, and orchards. In Santa Barbara we had a couple smoothies while walking on the beach and the pier.
The next day we drove to Solvang. Solvang is a little Danish community about 45 minutes north of Santa Barbara.
We enjoyed some Danish pancakes at a Danish Restaurant. They had multiple Danish bakeries, windmills, antique shops, a Christmas store, a musicbox/cuckoo clock store, and a not so Danish Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory.
It was a great little vacation and fun to celebrate our marriage together.