Carp - Thursday

I need to speed things up...I am falling dangerously behind and losing steam :)  

Thursday in Carp was a little more mellow.  We finally got out for a nice long walk.  How is it we can go on vacation and be all together with no major plans for a week and it still took us until Thursday to find time to head out for a walk!?!

But it was a gorgeous morning and we stopped to see the sea lion sanctuary (unfortunately there were no sea lions, but there was a good view of the pier).

And on the way back Wes had to show me this "oozing" tar pit that he found with Grammy the day before.  Carpinteria is famous for it's tar (the natives used it for all sorts of things, especially for their fishing boats) but  in all the years of coming here, I've never seen some oozing out of the rocks like it was here.  Usually you just find it all over your feet, your boogie boards, and your bathing suit!  Kind of cool but messy as Wes had to find lots of sticks and rocks to pop the tar bubbles! 

Later that afternoon Wes had lunch with Slayder 

 and sister girl enjoyed the shade.

 Since Grammy and Auntie MoMo had left the night before and we were solo for dinner, we did a shmorgishborg dinner with the Rauschs and the Garridos and enjoyed a little bit of everything. 

 The sunset was beautiful, as it was every night.

 And we finally got around to making ice cream.  This was my pick: Fat Elvis!  Banana ice cream with peanut butter and reeses peanut butter cups.  Yum, and I'll even forgive the diss to Elvis!