After yesterday's somewhat bleak post (news these days, I tell you), I thought I would share some pictures I took this weekend and lighten the mood a little. My mood is pretty light, actually: I took Friday off work, and with today being a US holiday (Presidents Day), that gave me a four-day weekend! Woo, I need to do this more often, it's awesome, even if I did spend some of today dreading going back to work.
Increasing the awesomeness is that I had friends in town for the weekend, so I got to have dinner with them Friday night (after a lovely lazy day at home, not working), and then they came down here Saturday, and we had lunch and hit a little local art fair and then walked on the beach. I loved showing off my neighborhood, and it was a very fun time with no downsides.
The restaurant Friday night is on a river, so there's always some boat traffic, but the gondola rides are new to me.
But I was just glad it was clear weather, since most of the day by me was like this:
The fog did roll in at the restaurant later, after the sun went down, but at least it was clear for most of dinner.
And then Saturday was beautiful! The view from lunch was worth eating early so we could be there when they opened to get a table by the water. Check out the view.
We even saw dolphins!
And in addition to the rest of the boat traffic, we saw the pirate ship boat tour nearby. It's a whole production with a pirate in a dinghy trying to board, and a water pistol fight.
The food was good, too. After lunch, we wandered around the little art fair in the park, and I bought a decorated mirror:
And a photo print:
And my friend got some things as well.
They came back to my place and met my mother, and we chatted a bit before walking to the beach. Someone had made a turtle in the sand:
We saw this odd thing, perhaps an egg case? Not really sure. I should have stuck my hand in for scale; it was big.
What a beautiful day.
I loved having them here. And once they were gone, kitty loved having my undivided attention again.
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