Vacation

Scott and I went on a little vacation to celebrate our five year wedding anniversary. It is not often we have a babysitter so it was really nice to get away and have some quiet alone time together. Our original plan was to spend one night in Santa Barbara on our way to San Luis Obispo but with the wildfires, we didn't get to stay in Santa Barbara. Instead we went a little further north and stayed one night in Cambria. We stayed at this cute little inn located on Moonstone Beach. This was the view from our room. How nice waking up to this!

We had a fantastic dinner Sunday night and ventured around the town. Monday morning we headed out to see the Elephant Seals. It was like nothing I have ever seen before. There were hundreds upon hundreds just sunbathing on the beach. Here is an up close of one scratching his head. How cute!!! You need to see my slide show on this post to see more. Also on this beach were some friendly squirrels (check out the slide show). Seriously, they came right up to us and would sit on our feet. A little too friendly for me.

Afterwards we went to Hearst Castle. This place was truly magnificent. There seriously are no words to describe this place. There was detail put into everything. Even the guest houses were amazing.

His indoor pool alone had one and a half million pounds of real gold on the floor. How much money did this guy have to want to walk on gold??? In 1919, he made between 30 and 40 thousand dollars a day!!! Can you imagine making that much money even now let alone 1919? There are more pictures on the slide show. I would recommend everyone to visit Hearst Castle if given the opportunity because it was amazing. Afterwards, we headed to San Luis Obispo to stay at the Madonna Inn. If you have never heard of it, check out their website. They have 110 differently decorated rooms and it is elaborate. My slide show has some pictures of the suite we stayed in. There was a waterfall in the shower! And there was a free flowing rock sink. We had dinner at their restaurant that night and boy was it pink?!!! The owner loved the color pink so all the interior is pink. It is kind of blinding.

Tuesday we spent the day getting a couples massage, swimming and relaxing.

We also went to Avila Beach and did some wine tasting. We had desert on a balcony over the creek with tons of frogs. Interesting but the ambiance was great! Wednesday we headed back home but had to stop at Pea Soup Andersons for the World's Best Pea Soup. I don't like pea soup but it was actually good!

Now back to the grind of waking up early and playing all day :) As if I didn't mention it enough on this post, you can click on the slideshow to open it up I have little descriptions on each picture.