Day 2

The day starts with some bird cawing outside my window at 4:15 am.  It is still dark out, what is it squawking about?  I grab a cookie from the kitchen and go back to bed.  Fast forward 7 hours when I wake up again and it is after 11 am.  Amy has been up for hours.  She has showered, taken a walk to the ocean, read a few chapters in her book and her favorite pastime while in California – gathered sticks for the fireplace.  She had quite the collection on the deck.  I quickly get dressed because we need to get to town and find a wireless connection of the Internet because Amy received an offer on her house on Saturday.  While we were traveling to California, Amy received a message that she had an offer.  Perfect timing.  We went to our favorite spot, Safeway, and while Amy conducted her business over cell phone and free wi-fi, I stood in line at the Starbucks counter.  Very popular spot on a Sunday morning.  We then frantically researched trying to find somewhere in Carmel open on a Sunday that had a printer available for us so Amy could print out and sign her offer.  We found all we needed at the local UPS conveniently located in the same shopping center as Safeway.  We then spent a lovely hour or two, printing, emailing, signing, scanning and emailing documents.  We beat the deadline and hopefully all goes well and soon Amy will only own one house instead of two. 

After business was taken care of, we returned to Safeway to complete our shopping.  On our return to the cabin, we stopped to get an “ocean fix” at Garrapata.  The ocean was spectacular as always.  In the far off distance we could hear sea lions barking.  A few dozen pictures later we hit the road back to the cabin.  Dinner was grilled cheese and baked potato soup.  Yummy.  We walked to the ocean after dinner, took a few pictures of the cows and returned to the cabin for our nightly fire and smores.   I decided to check out the stars and while on the deck the bat we saw yesterday and named Betty flew very close to my head.  I am sure she was saving me from a big bug but she scared the crap out of me.  She flew so close I swear I felt her wings on my hair.  We are now relaxing next to the fire, reading and listening to my iPod with Brother Iz serenading us.  Soon is it off to bed.  Tomorrow we plan to visit Monterey to pick up fleece jackets, have a crepe, buy some See’s chocolate and stalk the sea lions around the pier.  I will have to drag Amy away – she does love sea lions.  I should tell her that sea lions attack and kill humans.  Just kidding!