This morning we slept in and then ran errands. #1 -- Post office to get stamps and mail postcards home. #2 -- Do laundry (~$4/load). And the washers looked just like the ones at Deerfield. #3 -- Lunch, while doing laundry. I found a yummy bread place in the same shopping mall. I had a yummy ham & cheese croissant for lunch.
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When the laundry was done we crashed at the hotel for a couple of hours. then we went to the beach at ~3:30 (the sun would set at 5:30). We drove out onto the beach past a lot of totally naked people. They were brown all over, so they must do this a lot. We finally stopped where we had 150m of beach to ourselves. We pulled out our chairs, tolels, and books, and then hit the water. It was cool but not frigid, so after a little while we headed back to base and read books for awhile, and then headed back out. I noticed that the sand here wasreally fine -- more like clay than sand. I tried to make a castle, but it retained too much water and turned into more of a sand pancake. The sunset was good, of course, and I realize how much I miss the beach. I get a measure of peace and tranquility from it that I don't know how to get any other way.
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By the time it was dark we were hungry, so we headed for the Kimberley Kitchen, a pizza parlor. The wait was long, but when it was done it was good -- I really liked their handmade crust. Egg-onion-bacon-tom sauce --- very yummy.
