HEARST CASTLE AND CAMPING

Damon and I decided to go camping up North this last weekend and go to Hearst Castle.  Lets start with day 1. 

Day 1:  We decided to go Friday night after work. We left the house around 7:30 and had a few errands to run before we left.  The campsite we were staying at was about 4 hours away.  Well it was like 11:00 and Damon and I realized we forgot towels so we pulled over and found a Kohl's that was open because they were having a huge sale.  BAD NEWS BEARS!!! We end up shopping there until midnight.  We are shopaholics! Well we finally get to the campsite about 2 am. We are everyone's worst nightmare because we just start setting up our tent... By the way its FREEZING up there.  So here we are setting up this tent that we have never even opened and using our car lights to set it up.  Well as Damon is putting the tent together I decide I need something from the car.  All of a sudden the bushes right next to me start shaking!! OKAY SCARY! Especially because we just heard something howl a little bit ago. So I jump in the car and Damon starts looking around for me and sees me in the car.  So I hurry and open the door and tell him there something out there and he jumps in the tent and zips it up except for his head looking to see what it is.  I am laughing my head off watching him. It was so funny because he had his little head light on looking into the bushes...classic.  Well he hurries and runs into the car with me and we're sitting there waiting to see what it is.  He was telling me that he saw these two eyes staring at him when he was in the tent.  Well all of a sudden this fat cat comes out of the bushes and Damon says, "is that a MOUNTAIN LION?!!!" I just about peed my pants right there because I was laughing so hard. He's so funny!

Okay, we then get everything set-up except we had an air mattress that we needed to blow up because we don't have any sleeping bags, just blankets.  It is now 4 am.  Well we decide to blow it up anyway because we need something to sleep on, but we don't blow it up that much because the pump was so loud...well needless to say we FROZE.  We held onto each other all night to try and stay warm, but nothing worked. We maybe got 2 hours of sleep.  We woke up every 30 min and finally we just started laughing so hard we were crying.  As soon as the sun came up I was out of the tent.  Oh goodness...you have to know that this was Damon's and mine first time ever camping together.  So this was definitely an experience.

DAY 2: I promise this will be shorter

So we went to Hearst Castle. One of the coolest things I've seen. It was freaking huge, and it was gorgeous.  It was made from a european design with like 1800 century furniture and just beautiful detail in every room. The Garden's had all of these imported statues and such amazing landscapes. They have an outdoor pool that looks like you're in Rome, and then an indoor pool where the floor is made of gold.  CRAZY! www.hearstcastle.org.  Check it out. Here are some pics, but doesn't do it any justice.

That night we decided to make a camp fire.  The problem was that it was so windy and it had started raining a little bit. Damon was DETERMINED! He was not going to give up on this fire, and I didn't think he was going to be able to make it work, but his boy scouting came through. We had a nice fire...so we thought. Well we starting taking pictures and this is what we got... If you look closely you will see like 3 demon faces in it.  Its crazy. I wish i could point them out to you, but you just have to look closely.  Its freaking SCARY.

DAY 3:

Damon and I drove home and just stopped off here and there in these cute little towns and walked the beaches. It was pretty windy and cold, but still beautiful. Here are some pics:

Sorry for the long blog. Just too much stuff happened.