Sunday morning we had an early breakfast at Frankie & Lola's Cafe. Al had Creme Brulee french toast that was amazing.
Alex threw sugar packets everywhere.
The drive along the coast is sooo pretty. Next time I want to go all the way to Oregon.
We started off at Hearst Castle. We didn't know they make you park at the bottom and take a shuttle up to the castle, but after we drove up the windey road it made sense.
They loaned us a backpack at the Visitors Center for Alex and I carried Cole in the Bjorn. Our tour guide was so serious you would have thought the castle was his. He told our group at least 10 times before walking in to only step on the carpeted walkways, to not touch anything but the medal railings, and no food or gum. As soon as we got to the first room Alex started freaking out in the backpack and wanted to get down. One of the security guards came over to us and asked us if we would like to go to the baby room. We decided to accept their offer and then they quickly walked us through the other 3 rooms we would have seen on the tour.
Billiard's Room
Movie Room
As soon as we got to the baby room Alex jumped out of Al's arms and started playing with the toys. I decided I should feed Cole and change his diaper while we were sitting there and than Alex decided he should go to the bathroom too. 2 year old diapers smell about 100 times worse than 2 month old diapers so lets just say the room smelled really bad The guard came in at one point and quickly stepped back out, oh boy. Then when we were done with everything we went back out and the tour was outside the baby room, so I'm sure they smelled everything. It was a disaster!!
Luckily we got to walk around outside to make our $25 tickets worth it.
It was a rough day for Alex due to not sleeping the night before.
Hearst Castle is amazing. I wish they had a tour to see the entire thing, but if we ever go back it will be without kids or when they are older, much older.
The views are beautiful.
Our second stop was to see the elephant seal colony at Piedras Blancas. What a sight it was. We weren't sure if there were more people or seals. I seriously could have stood there all day and watched them, so interesting.
The elephant seals were our turn around point. We stopped in San Luis Obispo for lunch at Firestone Grill. I was a little apprehensive at first because last time I ate there I was 8 months pregnant with Alex and hated BBQ then. This time we got there popular tri tip sandwich and it was amazing. Alex ate all the batter of the onion rings.
We walked over to the famous Bubblegum Alley and admired all the gum everywhere. It's kind of gross, but pretty crazy it's been there since the 50's
It could have been bad if Alex wasn't strapped in his stroller.
Al throwing his wad of gum high
Our last stop of the trip was Madonna Inn. The first time I ever saw this was when I used to watch The Girls Next Door, haha.
We let Alex throw pennies in the fountain out front.
Left his shoes in the car, whoops.
Tacky pink everything, pretty awesome.
Al promised me he would go pee in the men's waterfall urinal, so great.
Both kids did great on the ride home. It was a successful trip.
