Thursday, August 8, 2013

Our Summer Grand Finale

This past weekend, our family drove down the Coast to spend some time together.  Our first stop along the way was in Big Sur,  I loved this Inn - it reminded me of Germany.


On the drive there, we stopped off at this beach with lots of Elephant Seals. (bad picture, there were more seals than what this shows!)

Look!  We are in the cute town of Cambria!!!

We had lunch here and looked at the shops. 





Time to go, but first - frozen yogurt!

Our next stop was Cayucos. We loved looking at that large "mountain"  pictured here. 

Here we are on the pier, but we couldn't go all the way down...the sign said it was unstable! 

I wish we could have explored longer.  Luckily, we were able to stop off at the Brown Sugar Cookie Company for the most delicious cookies! 

We stayed at the Embassy Suites in San Luis Obispo.  That evening we had a wonderful dinner, where we sat outside on the patio over looking the creek.  


We had a little time before dinner to check out some of the fun shops in down town San Luis Obispo. 



This field was behind our hotel. 

Next stop - Hearst Castle.  If you look very very very carefully, you can see it on the top of the hill.  Our bus had a long, high climb up that mountain! 

On that bus! 

We all loved our visit to this castle - so much so that we wouldn't mind going again for another tour. 












Wouldn't it be nice to swim here?

Had to do an artsy picture of Amber!

We had such a wonderful time.  Maybe we'll do it again?