Vacation

So this is our first time doing something like this so be patient as we try to improve the stuff you see here. Mainly we wanted to do this share pictures and stories with family and friends about what is going on in our lives. With Lauren in residency and Luke starting graduate school next week, life is busy! We both have a lot of relatives that we are not able to keep in frequent contact with, but we want to keep in better contact.

The pictures that you will be seeing are from our vacation that we just returned from. we went to Yosemite, CA for 3 days, then to Orange County, CA for a week and then we stayed in San Simeon, CA for 2 days next to the Hearst Castle. Please feel free to comment on our posts and we are excited to share all this with you guys! we will try to add updates weekly (we'll see how this goes!).

this is the indoor pool (next to the movie theatre). The ledge in the middle is a diving board. All of that yellow you see is pure gold! 

this was a cool statue because it is from the year 1500 B.C., I forget what is was called but it is old and so I took a picture of it! 

this is the entrance to the main part of the castle 

this is the outside of one of the guest houses (1 of 3)..for the tour they will only let you see one guest house...unless you want to pay more money 

this is a side view of the pool...you can tell which spot was my favorite! 

this is the outdoor pool at the Hearst Castle...someday we are hoping to have this in our backyard...yeah right! 

this is the measley waterfall that we hiked up to...during the spring the fall stretches across the entire cliff you see there 

this is us on a 4 mile hike that we went on up to Vernal Falls in Yosemite 

these were the deer that got a little too close to us! 

This is the view of Half Dome in Yosemite last week. This view was just right outside our cabin. It is so beautiful there! 

this is us at a rest in