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.