The New Year started off without a bang for us, I was pet sitting alone, drinking sparkling cider with a chocolate lab slightly larger than me. However, it didn’t stay uneventful.
That first weekend, we traveled to the Bay Area for Jeff’s grandma’s memorial & burial service. We had a great time with his family remembering her life. I never got to know Jeff’s grandma (she had several strokes years and years ago,) but she definitely sounded like my kind of woman! It was great getting to see all of Jeff’s cousins that I only ever get to contact via facebook, where his cousin Rob is my favorite Mafia Wars buddy because he sends me energy packs.
Ok, now my focus is drifting and we need to get back on topic.
Anyways, after sharing a hotel room with Jeff’s mom and getting zero sleep, I went down the coast with Jeff to spend the day fishing on the pier in Capitola. Jeff shared a room with his dad and slept the full night, the benefit of being awake the previous 40 something hours. The rest of us couldn’t sleep because the sheets were like paper — every time you moved, even the flicker of a finger, sounded like crumpling paper. Other than that, the hotel and appletinis were really nice.
Once we got to the wharf in Capitola, Jeff bought his bait and we set up shop. He kept going back to the bait shop on the wharf so many times that they wanted to set up a tab for him! (Note: this photos are the unedited iphone photos of this trip — I haven’t downloaded the photos from our cameras yet.)
It was his first time since childhood fishing on a wharf, so he had a ton of fun.
I let him buy a crab pot, which made him happy as a clam.
He caught a lot of hermit crabs and sea snails.
One teeny tiny crab.
One starfish.
?
… and I need the camera’s photos to show you what else he caught! Once I have access to Jeff’s computer, I’ll post them.
While Jeff was doing all that fishing, I sat there reading “The Shop on Blossom Street.” Really good read, I’m now on the third book in the series! I also managed to find the geocache on the wharf that I had DNF’d on the last time we tried to find it. That was rewarding, because it really showed how much I’ve developed my geocaching skills. Tomorrow I’ll have a post of photos of some of the geocaches I’ve found over break. Until then…
Enjoy the sunset 
