The next morning, we awoke to a beautiful day and took a short walk along the beach

before returning for breakfast at the Fogcatcher Inn

and a look at the heated pool (couldn't be heated enough) and we then gathered our possessions from the room and headed for Hearst Castle where they sent this profound message and in the gift shop, I tried on this hat as we gathered and posed for a green screen photo from which we could later claim our pictures and we got our tickets studied our map enjoyed our wristbands and boarded the bus for the ride up the hill where we were met by our tourguide and headed to the main building outside of which I took many photos

including the fountain.

Once inside, we were escorted to the living room where there was artwork people admired before being escorted to dinner

and next we went to the dining room where we saw the table surrounded by flags and wood carving in all directions not to mention the mustard and ketchup on the table as we admired further the room before returning to the table directions and then the most remarkable Xmas tree and the newspaper ending prohibition as we made our way into the billiard room where we saw the owl accompanying the tapestry and so focused on the owl who looked just like ours and the mosaic and the balls racked for the break by one of these cues.

This ended the tour, but we were free to room outside which we did

stopping for flower photos before admiring sculptures and the most remarkable view with brick stones at the building side and another brick stone as we made our way to the outdoor swimming pool which was remarkable

and then past the tigers and the scaffolded fountain and olympian to the succulents which we admired

and after a pause for a family photo a look at the view and another family photo we were back to succulent admiration

After another amazing statue and the views we headed along the path and past a few more plantings

until we got to the tennis court and the remarkable indoor swimming pool

before heading back to the bus for the ride down the hill and down to the beach where we promised to not feed the squirrels and admired the bird while reading the sign that described what we would see when we went to stare at the elephants seals taking quite a few photos

breaking for a flower shot and then getting back to seals

before we got back into the car and drove to the Madonna Inn where we visiting the famous urinal and sink and then drove past Halcyon Drive on our way to the In N Out Burger experience including this collection sign in the mens room. Driving further south on the 101, we were happy to see Santa Claus Lane, it being Xmas eve and we watched the sunset and a fire in the hill before we got to Larry and Janet's house and saw their new kitchen complete with fruit bowl as we settled in to dinner as Paige held the cat.