Day 4

Day 4 started in Paso Robles where we had a Mexican breakfast with Paul's uncle (also not a Mexican). Burritos for breakfast... who woulda thought! Actually Paul does it frequently at home... not Mexican my eye! ;)

Then we started the long drive up the coast to Monterey. It was BEAUTIFUL!!! The first part of the drive was through part of the California wine country and I have this HUGE thing for vineyards... were I not LDS I totally would have gotten married in a vineyard. I LOVE them, think they are so pretty! And where there weren't vineyards it was just beautiful lush and green... like Ireland.

On our way we saw a sign for Hearst Castle... being all about touring homes (especially ones called castles) I insisted we go. So we did! (good husband). It was amazing!

The story about Hearst Castle for those of you who don't know is that it was built by William Randolph Hearst, the Hearst family being incredibly wealthy due to media (magazine etc publishing) and he was bored and build a ginormous house on the cliffs overlooking the ocean. In it he stored is millions (now billions) of dollars art collection ranging from Italian monastary church benches to statues from King Tuts tomb. All displayed next to each other with nothing in common but Mr. Hearst liking them all. He designed the house(s) to look like an Italian village... part of it was never finished but all in all it was amazing. And all the famous people of the time spent time there... Charlie Chaplin, umm.... can't think of anyone else. But all the rich and famous of the 30's and 40s hung out there. One really cool thing is that he also had a zoo with all sorts of animals, most all are gone now but supposedly you can sometimes see zebra grazing along side the road. We didn't see any. These are some of the pictures... our camera was running out of batteries (and guess who forgot the charger... that would be me) so we didn't take as many as we wanted to.

From there we drove up Highway 1... long, windy and beautiful. Loved being able to always see the ocean. We stopped and ate at this little restaurant and I loved that the sign told us which way the llamas were... we didn't see any of those either :(