Summer Road Trip: SOLVANG

Welcome to: Solvang, CA

This is a cute little town founded in the early 1900s by Danish settlers just past Santa Barbara. It looks like Disneyland! There are cute little shops, windmills everywhere, a museum dedicated to Hans Christian Andersen (author of The Little Mermaid and several other fairy tales), restaurants and bakeries to DIE FOR.

We didn't stay long, because we needed to get back on the road, but Greg picked up a delicious freshly-baked cheese danish before we left and it was sooo good! I wish we hadn't eaten breakfast before leaving so that we could've stayed and sampled more of the food they had to offer in town.. NEXT TIME FOR SURE!

In front of the Little Mermaid fountain, located in the middle of town, across from the Hans Christian Andersen Museum. I just had to stop here. The Little Mermaid is one of my favorite Disney cartoons, so I wanted to stop and see the statue of the story it was originally based upon!

Next stop: GILROY --->