San Simeon Trip!

So our trip was wonderful. We camped at San Simeon State Park. It was good. The camping was different from what we are used to(Joel camps in areas where their is no other people and I camp in Fort Bragg!). But we made it work. The drive down their was super hot untill we hit HWY46 and then the marine layer kicked in!! I did not have to drive for the entire trip which was wonderful! For the first time in forever I actually got to relax and LOOK at the scenery. Imagine that!
The Hearst Castle as awesome. We were unable to go thru the tour because the dogs were in the car and it would have gotten to hot. So we just went thru the visitors center museum. I can tell you now that we are going back because I want to go through that house! Seeing the castle from Hwy 1 was so neat.
We also went to the beach a lot and the kids and dogs played. We walked around Cambria (I could so live their) and saw some really beautiful art. We also went and saw the Elephant Seals. They are blubber machines! On Sunday we went down to Morro Bay before we headed out and that was cool. We walked around and saw a ton of birds. The kids say that rock is just a giant bird perch!
After that we ate at a nice restaurant that overlooked the bay and the kids got to watch Pelicans, Harbor Seals, and fishing boats bringing in their catch. I think we all had a good time outside of the kids fighting and complaining about things. Why do kids do that? Thay complain the whole trip and then we go home and they say we had so much fun!!?? Anyways Joel fared well with the kids and he still called me on Monday night so that is a good sign....

Morro Bay power plant. Just thought it was cool.

They are standing next to a peice of rock that has fallen off of the huge rock!

Morro Rock.

Going home... We had the van packed to the hilt.

Do you see the ground squirrel next to the seal? He was their for the longest time eating something in the sand!!

Elephant seals.

Moonstoone Beach.

It is so true! You can take the girl out of the mountain but you can not take the mountain out of the girl!!

Hearst Castle from about 10 miles away!

I think this white dog was having fun.

Missy was making flags with Kyles socks!

Kyle with his mallow stick.

Kyle and Missy in the dog house portion of the tent.