Some Fairly Good Days

On Saturday, July 3, we drove over to Muir Woods.  Being the Saturday of July 4 weekend, it was really crowded, so we drove on past and found Muir Beach, which was almost deserted.  We took our chairs, a picnic, our books and sat on the beach and read all day.

On Sunday, July 4, I woke up fine, but after some juice I got really sick.  I'm a bundle of fun.  And, here it is a holiday.  We spent the day in the hotel watching the history channel.  I was able to eat pizza for dinner.

On Monday, July 5, I was better, so we checked out of the hotel in El Cerrito and got a campsite at China Camp, outside San Rafael.  Then, we went to the Marin County Fair, which was absolutely great!  We saw the 4 Tops, the Temptations, a really good art show, all the animals, dressage, ate junk food.  All my favorite stuff.  However, the gods were not content to let me have a perfect day, so on the way out of the fairgrounds, I tripped on a piece of unfinished concrete and fell flat on my face.  Skinned my face up something terrible (I will not share that picture.), hurt my hand and crushed my chest.  I did not break my fall at all.  Couldn't believe I didn't break my nose.  To top it all off, when we got back to the campground, they had locked the gates and John had to hike in and ask the not-too-happy camp manager to let us in.  Oh, well, it was still a great fair.

The next day we spent in camp, just relaxing and allowing me to heal some.  I had a hard time sleeping, because I was so sore.  Had a nice campfire that evening.  While we were sitting around the campfire, here comes a raccoon and climbs right up on our picnic table to see what we had.  We also saw deer, a coyote, 5 pileated woodpeckers  and a family of wild turkeys.