Birthday Boy Bash

After getting the house cleaned up, we were able to finally celebrate Mark's birthday!! I love Mark. He is my best friend in the world and I am always thrilled to spend time with him. For his birthday, Mark and I decided to finally check out the Santa Cruz Mystery Spot. We went the day before his birthday because his birthday landed on a Sunday this year. The Mystery Spot is located up in the Santa Cruz mountains. Apparently it's a place where secret mysterious things happen due to some crazy natural phenomenons that scientists aren't able to explain. We had lots of fun and the area was absolutely beautiful.


The Mystery Spot has some weird gravitational things going on. When our tour guide put down the pictured board on a certain spot, one side appeared to be higher. Then, when he put a pool ball on the board, it actually started moving what appeared to be upwards. So apparently it was actually downwards because the gravity was pulling it that way. He even used my chapstick to prove that it wasn't just their weird ball. Really weird.


Mark posed outside the house that fell down the side of the hill after being firmly constructed, just to stop at this spot. They believe it stopped here because this area must be the center of the weirdness. Our tour guide told us one theory of why the area has weird gravitational pulls may be due to magma under the earth's surface.


Mark standing up straight on the table in the house. When you stand up straight, you actually appear to be leaning super far over.


Can you tell what way the gravitational pull is?


Heather posing in the house doorway.


Chilling in the Santa Cruz mountains after our amazing tour.


The next morning was officially Mark's birthday, and here's his official first birthday picture!


Opening presents later that day.



I made lemonade pie instead of cake because that's what Mark likes. Unfortunately, I couldn't find our candles, so I just used the only candle we had. Happy Birthday Handsome!!!