Saturday morning, we claimed the car from the garage for the trek to the pancake house which was truly the original member of the chain. While waiting we decided not to enlist and that these gas prices demanding a trip to CostCo. I made a few attempts at capturing my profile but even though the coffee waitress was amused, my self portrait and those of Dan and Sylvia came out better even as the second coffee waitress and our main waitress came to look out for us. At her suggestion, I sprung for the chocolate chip pancakes with Whipped cream and Dan got the omelette while Sylvia had these eggs and I started to wonder if I knew what I was doing and so took a second picture of the many calories I was about to ingest even as Dan tried to break the stringy parts of his omelette. All of this eating put us in good stead for CostCo where the hot dogs sold here are world class and the gas prices are lower. So, we made our way in and through to the napkins and then found Jason who checked us out.

After the meal, we still needed another excursion and so we drove to the cove and parked above the juggler who was keeping even more balls in the air. A walk down to the beach led us to overlook the seals, some of whom slept some of whom tried to get in the water and many of whom formed their own colony as the sign advised us. After getting a sign for Jane's Armani collection we went to Mrs. Fields noted the time and had latte decaf with skimmed milk to pass the afternoon.

I tried a few more profile pictures that were slightly better while watching Alabama get ready to pull off a highly unlikely upset of Stanford. After another profile try and a self portrait we drove through traffic to see gas prices in San Clemente as we parked by the book exchange and Cowabanga and headed into the restaurant where Gregory Erin and Larry were joined by Dan as the waiter from Peekskill via Monmouth College tried not to spill on Larry. The menu suggested that I needed another jalapeno, pineapple and black olive pizza as Erin had her grilled cheese sandwich Larry had his tacos (for the first half of the meal) Dansyl split the pasta Gregory warmed up Larry's meatball sandwich and Janet had stirfry for the first of 2 days in a row. After a few bad tries at getting my profile and a reasonable self portrait we began the self-profile contest (JTS would be proud) with Janet Sylvia Dan Larry Gregory and Erin each giving it their best shot before I took this errant self-profile to show that I hadn't learned much.

After dinner, we went to the book store where I took 3 pictures with too much flash and four pictures with too little flash before we ended the evening with this collection of group pictures.