VACATION!! Day 2


We stayed the night in San Simeon. Meh... that hotel placed every guest right next to each other & the walls were paper thin so we got to hear everyone most of the night! (That's why I never leave home without earplugs! Greatest invention EVER!!)

Anyway, we had already decided to drive up the 1 to San Jose with a short stop to see Hearst Castle, only once we got there we decided we didn't really want to do it. It was rainy & we had a lot of miles to cover & sometimes you just wanna get there, ya know?! Here's the funny thing... We only had like 2 gallons of gas which I noticed and said aloud, and we were wondering if we should backtrack or just hope we would run into a gas station. Long story short... The gas light came on, we FINALLY found a station, the gas was $5 something/gallon!!! I guess out in the middle of nowhere they can charge whatever they want!!

We finally got to San Jose and headed over to the Winchester Mystery House. I had been here previously in the mid 90's with my BFF Katy & you were allowed to take pictures back then. I guess someone took video and then made a not-so-nice movie with that footage, and now they have a no photos rule. (I still took them with my phone camera when our tour guide wasn't paying attention.- Shameful, I know.)
Here are all the pictures:

Outside views of the house:



This one is my FAVE... It's the bell tower. I took it from inside the house.


Inside the house views:

Soni by the pantry and some statue thingie.


The super cute daisy windows!

Outside/garden tour views:


Sad, I can't remember how this tree was split, but that's how it grows now.

Mrs. Winchester loved horses so the weather vane had a horse instead of a rooster.

A replica of the Winchester tombstone. Meh.

We also went on the tour of under the house... the basement and such, but the tour guide was Boom! right there wherever we were so I couldn't get any pictures. Oh well... it was dark anyway.

After this we checked into our hotel and then found a Target and a Trader Joe's (Soni said she could live in San Jose b/c it has those 2 stores!)
Then we watched a Christmas movie and drank hot chocolate...
NEXT STOP... SAN FRANCISCO!!




2 comments:

Soni said...

I like how you "glossed over" how FREAKED out we were to possibly run out of gas out in the middle of nowhere. Not to mention that the gas light had gone on and that it was pouring rain. Maybe you weren't freaked out...but I was practically peeing my pants.
I guess it could have been worse though...not like we driving through the mojave desert.

Julie said...

Hey, CC! I've tagged you.

If you want to participate:
http://weighward.blogspot.com/2012/01/friday-favorites-being-tagged-is-fun.html