Day 4 - Toes in the Sand

Once again we slept in past 7, and woke to a cloudy blue sky. The tide was partway out, so we walked most of the way to Hug Point but were cut off by high water at the waterfall,and then turned around and walked almost all the way down to the creek at the south end, but the sand was cold and our feet were too frozen to make it all the way there. We got back up and had breakfast, and heard from Josh & Jen that they’d about finished their breakfast at the Lazy Susan and were headed over.

When they got here we pulled the table out of the kitchen into the living room so we could watch the sky get clearer and clearer as we tried to Exit the Room. The adventure was called Polar Station, and it was 3 out of 5 stars hard. I don’t know if it was the wrong combination of skills (we’ve had Tim, Tabetha, and/or Reagan for all our other escapes) or that we were feeling rushed because it was Saturday and we would get to lunch late or if it was the extreme creepiness of the soundtrack that Dave had playing from the Exit the Room app, but we had a terrible time getting out! Many of the puzzles had an ah-ha! Kind of quality, which if you didn’t get the ah-ha you just felt stupid, which we did much of the time. We had to use many more of the hint cards than usual and didn’t come away with quite the high we usually do – it took almost two hours and we were hungry. Next time, no starting to escape after 9-ish. And maybe back to 2 stars of difficulty. They had a chart at the end where you got a rating based on how long it took and how many hints you used, and we were at 3 of 10 stars. Not impressive.

 

We went into town which was more crowded (not unexpected on the weekend) and ended up eating at Public Coast, a restaurant at the north end of town which has been both Clarks and Lumbermans. We have eaten there only once in each of its incarnations, and have now eaten at it once (Dave’s been twice) as Public Coast and don’t need to go back. The beer was pretty good, but the food was meh or meh-minus. We were able to get a table outside and sitting and eating in the sun felt pretty good.

 

After lunch Dave and I went for a walk and the kids hung out in the house. The tide was about 2/3 to low, and with the high sand it was easy to get over the carriage road and walk all the way to Tolovana. Well, mostly easy. For some reason every time we get to a narrow place a giant wave comes and we have to wait it out. Crossing the waterfall, which is much lower today than yesterday, there was even a surge of water coming down the waterfall. We don’t know what that’s about. Also leading up to high tide there were astonishing numbers of dead jellyfish – some whole ones, including several really big ones – and lots of jellyfish bits. They were in lines where the wave edges had been – I’ve never seen so many.

 

When we got back there was more relaxing and showering, and then it was time to head out for dinner. There are limited choices, so we ended up back at Castaways. The food and drink were very good and came out more quickly, but it was windy and colder than Thursday night. Once again Dave chose spice level 2, and once again I am recording that it’s the right spice level. After dinner we had more game night – I did an impressive amount of losing. You may notice that no knitting got done – it was a busy day!