Grace Stinchcomb on her first European jaunt... December 2008 -- followed by a road trip to Big Sur!
Entrance to Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England (ancestral home of Winston Churchill) Grace & Charles at Blenheim Palace Grace & Charles at Blenheim Palace
     
Charles & Grace at Stonehenge, Salisbury Plain, England Grace & Charles strike a pose outside the British Museum, London Grace & Charles at British Museum, posing with three new friends!
     
Grace & Charles at the Eiffel Tower, Paris Grace & Charles at the Eiffel Tower Paris:  Seine River cruise aboard one of the "Bateaux Mouches" river cruisers
     
Paris:  view from the Louvre, overlooking "la pyramide" Louvre:  views from inside the museum Louvre:  views from inside the museum
     
Louvre:  views from inside the museum Louvre:  front row viewing of Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"... lookin' good! Paris:  dinner at the Bistrot de Breteuil, close enough to the Eiffel Tower to see the evening light show!
     
Paris:  Arc de Triomphe Christmas Day at the Hotel Delambre, Paris Christmas Day at the Hotel Delambre, Paris
     
Meanwhile, back in California... the elephant seals bask in the warm sun California:  elephant seals Hearst Castle:  beautiful grounds!
     
Hearst Castle:  view of the main house Hearst Castle:  view of the grounds and the Pacific Hearst Castle:  view of the grounds
     
Hearst Castle:  another view of the main house Hearst Castle Hearst Castle:  fabulous mosaic-tiled indoor swimming pool
     
   
Big Sur:  Charles and Grace chill out at Nepenthe