Day 6

From Cambria to Los Angeles

28.7.11

Alright folks!

Let me try to keep it short for you today, though i don't think that's very possible with my blabbering...BUT I WILL TRY...AND TRY...AND TRY AGAIN!!! OKAY...to limit myself, so i can sleep early and explore hollywood tomorrow, i shall write everything in ONE paragraph today...hopefully :P HERE GOES:

(darn it...two paragraphs already!) Well i woke up this morning at 7:30! YES THAT'S RIGHT...7:30..IN THE MORNING!!! aren't you all so proud of me? but i was still the second last person up, stupid parents. My dad still RUNS/JOGS every morning....CRAZY O_O If my entry made no sense yesterday, it's probably because i was three quarters asleep while i wrote it yesterday night, but TONIGHT IS ALL GOOD I HOPE So we all had an early breakfast and drove back up the highway to Hearst Castle, which we all missed yesterday because the tours ended before we could get there Well we were there today so HA! ANYWAYS, we got on the tour that started at 9:30, so we had a little free time before we boarded the bus that would get us there. There was a little museum so we wandered around and had pictures taken and blah blah blah...etc. OH!! before we get too far in my marvelous storytelling, WE SAW ZEBRAS!! YES...ACTUAL, REAL LIFE, LEGIT, BREATHING, MOVING ZEBRAS! :D They were grazing the field as we drove by on the highway. Later we learned that they used to a part of Mr.Hearst's private zoo. WEALTHY MAN HE WAS. anyways, we boarded the bus HOORAY! and the bus took us up a long winding and steep path up the mountain, where hearst castle stood. Holey macaroni, i wonder how the people got up there in the Hearst's time without the paved roads. One wrong roll of the wheel...and we'd be ROLLIN' DOWN THE MOUN'AIN SIDE well we got to the castle and our tour guide was a funny guy...mexican too (i meant no racism there by the way)...he led up up the 150step long staircases up to the castle. The castle was simply GRAND AND HUGE. Apparently, Hearst wanted to build an imitation of a Mediteranean village up on the "Enchanted Hill" (aka the MOUNTAIN...nothing hill like about it...TRUST ME), but sadly he died before finishing the construction. But before he died, he reported that he had only built FIFTY PERCENT of what he wanted...THAT IS TRULY AMAZING. Theres different house looking over different views and they all surrounded the main castle. He used to have the largest private zoo in the whole entire world...but i guess all the animals were shipped away POOR ANIMALS He was such a RICH MAN. Must have been hard living with the poor people on the hill...it's quite astonishing that no-one robbed him...well i guess no one would...since he's got the sign "guard dogs on premises" :P OH GREAT IM BLABBING ONO AGAIN ARENT I? continuing on with my brief (i promise its BRIEF!) history lesson: he hired a woman architect to build and design it. wonder what drove him to do that? especially in the olden days...but i guess he was an eccentric AND RICH man...he could probably do whatever he wanted to anyways, theres 115rooms in the castle, of which 38 were bedrooms and 42 were bathrooms...lol more bathrooms than bedrooms...hmm must be the trademark of a female architect :P enough of that, LETS O THROUGH WHAT WE DID THERE. So we werent allowed to touch the marble stuff or the limestone stuff or the room stuff or the FLOOR FOR THAT MATTER. cuz they could all date back to the 1400's == SERIOUSLY NOW?! WELL FOR THE RECORD, if i died...NO ONE IS TO TOUCH MY ROOM >_> SOO.....WE TOURED THE DINING ROOM...YUMM...THE MAIN SITTING ROOM AND THE PRIVATE THEATER...TOLD YOU HE WAS FILTHY RICH. then we went outside and took like a MILLION pictures of the gardens, the castle and of course...THE POOLS. The prettiest outdoor pool you'll probably EVER see in your life. It's so...PRETTY IN A POOL WAY XP there's tons of fruit trees and scuptures of naked people...a very interesting collection mr.hearst had i sure The architecture was pretty amazing, and his land is IMMENSE. I'd say you could get lost in it, but it's pretty flat... :P Then my grandpa got lost....but luckily we found him! yay...he didnt wander too far we left the castle and got back to the center place thingy where we got on the bus. Of course at that time, we should all be pretty tired, which was why we should've ate lunch and continued onto LA...but NOO....my parents insisted on watching the "movie" about the explanation of why the castle was built...and blah blah blah...OBVIOUSLY I DIDNT GO WATCH IT...i FELLY ASLEEP on the bus ride down the mountain...DO YOU REALLY THINK I COULD'VE STAYED AWAKE IN THE THEATER?! so i went back to the car with grandpa and enjoyed a nice lunch and wrote a couple pages in my journal (YES...A COUPLE PAGES XP, TOLD YOU IM A BLABBY PERSON :P) and then my parents came back and...YAY OFF WE GO AROUND THE MULBERRY BUSH...i mean..THE HIGHWAY...sorry...needed some variation here So we ended up in the Costco at San Luis Obispo...where we were supposed to be YESTERDAY(the city i mean, not the costo ==)...but whateves So next stop was the rest area where we stopped for.....BREAKFAST...NO >__> DINNER OF COURSE just messing with you :P ugh...the sushi totally destroyed my appetite..;.so i had a small dinner and played tag with my little brother.He was WAY too slow...so he enlisted help from my parents to come at me all together ==. THREE AGAINST ONE...TOTALLY UNFAIR....BUT GUESS WHAT? no one caught me! PRO-NESS RIGHT HERE. though i thought i was going to die from over exertion >_> anyways after dinner and bathroom visits we continued on to LOS ANGELES. We got to the motel at around...8...cuz we missed a turn THREE TIMES...LA IS TOO BIG :O 6 WHOLE FREAKING LANES and it's not even downtown @.@ AT LEAST WE GOT TO THE MOTEL SAFELY...THANK GOD i took a really nice shower...and had a WHOLE CHICKEN...YES A WHOLE CHICKEN...I WAS HUNGRY OKAY? >__> SEE...THATS WHY I NEED THE EXERCISE...LIKE TAG DARN IT! TOO LONG....AGAIN...IM TERRIBLY SORRY FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO LOOKED FORWARD TO A SHORT POST.... MY BAD... :D AHH WELL SUCK IT UP...I'LL TRY AGAIN TMR though it'll be unlikely tomorrow...JUST A WARNING