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Planned on going to the beach again today, but it was overcast AGAIN and actually rained early in the morning. B__ and St__ were astounded – they have had nothing but sunny weather since moving there and blamed it all on us. I was disappointed in not having beach time, including cooking dinner on the beach, but honestly, I enjoyed the mild damp weather, after going through the dry hot deserts. We visited the Mission of Santa Barbara, and I had fun examining all the objects in the gift shop. I made several blasphemous comments so I'm probably going to Catholic hell, but that's not really a surprise. I really did like the mission though, and I'm intrigued by the time period and the building itself. I have some weird fetishistic interest in monks and monasteries and the ilk. I have a similar interest in Catholicism itself – probably because I was raised Protestant. Anyway, we went back downtown and visited a lot of the shops we missed the first time. Then we headed home and had dinner at a local Chili's-type establishment, which was fun too. Though the wild safari animal prints on the waiters were a bit much (the place was called Elephant Bar). That night we played our new card games, that Melro and I bought that day.