San Simeon is a small coastal town just south of Big Sur State Park. We stayed in a Motel 6 which was nothing to write home about but far from the worst place we’ve stayed (we’re still debating about which place that was…). The main attraction in this little town is the light house, so we went along and had a lovely tour of the little patch of state park that it sits on and learnt about the local wildlife and the history of the lighthouse itself.
It was also Ollie’s first birthday, so to celebrate we treated ourselves to dinner at a nice restaurant where both children refused to eat most of what we’d ordered, so Seb and I hurriedly ate our meals and we retreated to out motel before the kids got too disruptive. We sat around the eski (cooler/chilli bin) to sing happy birthday to our little man, whose best effort at blowing out his candle was to try to burn himself on the flame and then spit at it. He did it with a big grin on his beautiful happy face though and that’s all that mattered.
Onward to Santa Barbara….