whew! home again.
we got rained on and had a truly fabulous time nevertheless.
First we went to Mercey Hot Springs, a kind of ramshackle place that's been around (and pretty decrepit) for almost a hundred years, I think... the hot tub/hot spring is great, and we camped, so I don't know about the cabins- there are some folks fixing it up, planning a hotel and restaurant, which would spoil it completely for the rest of us. It looks as if it may take them a while to finish.
Dinner was a lot of thanksgiving leftovers-
deeelicious.
It rained a bunch, but we did get an endless show of rainbows all day on Saturday:


then we caved (it looked like it might rain a lot) and went to Hollister (it was close); rented motel rooms and had a fabulous dinner at a mexican restaurant in town. There were two Edward G. Robinson movies on TV, so we stayed up and watched those--- "The Stranger" with Orson Welles and Loretta Young, and "Scarlett Street", directed by Fritz Lang.
Today, after a big greasy breakfast, we headed to the coast to Ano Nuevo to see the elephant seals lay around on their big tubby bellies (and on each other).
Elephant seals have no problem with relaxing. I think they may even win over cats in that competition.