January 12, 2009

Monday 12~~~~We are headed to Santa Barbara today, it is a short drive, so we packed no lunch, big mistake, as the Elks Club there was full. We were headed for a state Park on the way, when we remembered we had to stay in Santa Barbara because Sharon had a prescription waiting at the post office General Delivery. We found the campground and it wasn't set up for rigs the size of ours, but we managed to get in one of the spaces with Kent's excellent parking ability and Sharon the parking attendant helper. LOL The place is "Hobson State Park" and it is right on the ocean. It was one of the nicer parks we have stayed in as far as beauty goes, in a long time. (picture) Of course we are partial to the ocean and the beautiful sunsets. We went on a long walk on the beach exploring the many tide pools that was there. Sharon has never touched any of the live sea mammals in the tide pools before and she really enjoyed it once she got over the fear of something maybe eating her finger off. (Can you imaging this, a woman who raised 5 children and all the times they went camping at the ocean to never have touched a sea anamone.) She found a neat (Conk) shell and lots of other large shells that of course we had to take with us. She says that someday when we are home for a long time, she is going to make a bird bath with cement and all these shells in the cement like her Aunt Jane used to make. We are only staying here one night, as the cost is $45 a night and that is not in our budget. It sure is pretty here though, we had the most beautiful view of the sun setting on the ocean from our trailer windows as we cooked and ate dinner. (picture) The sea was full of surfers catching the beautiful waves, they are pretty good at riding them. (picture) Most of them wear their hair pretty long, not much business for the hair stylists here. Kent is driving back to Santa Barbara early in the morning when the post office opens to get the mail, then we are going to Canoga Park .