Santa Margarita Lake

For our vacation this summer, Travis and I decided to go camping.  Apparently, though, you have to plan almost a year in advance to camp in Yosemite, so we went somewhere else!  We went to Santa Margarita Lake, which is in central California.  We were able to stay for 5 nights (4 full days).  :)  We took lots of pictures on our trip, and here are my favorites!

Our Cabin

We spent the first day mostly hanging around the campground.

The Jumping Pillow

My fellow campers!!

The second day we drove to see Hearst Castle.  If you don't know about it already, you can get information on the castle here.

Inside the castle's "Grand Rooms"

Travis took this picture.  Isn't it good??

One of the many sculptures on the grounds.

The outdoor pool.  Beautiful!  We wanted to swim in it so badly!

Apparently you would be fined $750 for getting into the pool.  Even if you accidentally fell in...

The indoor pool.

22 karat gold is in every single one of those tiles.  All along the bottom of the pool, as well as around it.

Inside the theatre.  These were all along the walls.

The castle had a great view of the Pacific Ocean.

Day 3 was spent closer to the campground.  We went fishing and swimming at the lake!

The Santa Margarita Lake was beautiful!!!

This was our fishing spot.  Unfortunately, we didn't catch anything.

One of our nightly campfires.  :)

On our last day, we drove to Morro Bay to see the Morro Rock, which is a volcanic plug.  Don't know what a volcanic plug is?  Click here.

These pictures were taken on different sides of the rock.  To get the first one, we (probably illegally) climbed up some rocks to see that awesome view!  Yes, we were splashed by a gigantic wave right before we climbed back down.

After the rock, we stopped off at a winery in Santa Margarita to taste some wine.  Both of the bottles we purchased were made from grapes grown in Santa Margarita.

This was taken on our last night while we were walking around the campground.  Yes, that tiny white dot is the moon.  :)

I took sunset pictures almost every night we were there, but this one is by far my favorite!