Rain, rain, go away, and a picture for Inger

Sunday we went to the "Key Cinema Club." They have these in a few cities, such as Washington D.C., St. Louis, and a few others plus San Francisco. This is an organization that you can join, or go as a guest, and they preview movies prior to being released. So you get to see movies, all indies, I think, before they get reviewed or released. Today we saw "Two Lovers" with Joachim Phoenix and Gwenneth Paltrow. Dan did not like the movie at all, Jay sort of liked it, and Paula, Lindsey and I (Pat) did like it, maybe 2 1/2 stars. It's fun to go, you go in the morning, and they are careful to monitor that no one is bringing any equipment to make a copy. Interesting! This is apparently Joachim's last movie, or so he says, but, we'll see. We don't think he'll make it as a rap star, at any rate.
Later, we met Kathleen at a wonderful restaurant in Larkspur called "The Lark Creek Inn." It was great. Kathleen had prime rib, which was served with Yorkshire Pudding, Dan had Sole, and Pat had fried chicken, served with a buttermilk biscuit. This place is really great, I might want to return for a special meal. Lovely atmosphere, great food.
Pat
Monday was a hike in the Golden Gate National Park area, around Sausalito. We were looking for a trail, and when we found it, it was closed, probably do to erosion from the rains. So we took a different trail, which was also acting as a drain from the top of the hills. The 2-3 inches of rain are running down any incline that is present. Driveways, hillsides and paths all act as drains. I can see why there are flood warnings. All the creeks that were dry when we got here last week, are running with water. The rain is supposed to subside tomorrow, with some warming into the 60's and partly sunny. I am going to Montana on Tuesday for a few days to visit my brother Jerry. Weather there is in the 40's and cloudy. I'll be back on Friday.

Dan

The walk was good, strenuous, but so good to be hiking and exploring. When it rains in this coastal area, it is very different than when it rains in Michigan. You can see why it floods! The signs in the Marin Headlands Park were also very strange to us, to watch out for frogs in the road! (did anyone see the movie "Magnolia'?) So we didn't see any frogs, thankfully, as stepping or running over a frog comes close to a nightmare for Pat, but we did see a huge slug on the path. We took it's picture for our Swedish home exchange hostess, Inger, who told us when we visited that she likes all the slugs we saw on walks there. so this one's for you, Inger!

Pat