August 20, 2011

Another day with no sun; however, I think the temperatures got close to 60 degrees today.  Just heavenly!

Saturday in Carmel is a zoo as tour buses descend on downtown to shop, eat and tour the galleries.  We decided to do the same, except we didn't eat or tour any galleries - one of us shopped!  ;0)

We then went over to Pebble Beach to see what was going on over there.  There was a Retro Show which is always interesting.  I usually find a bench outside and watch.  People watching here is the BEST.  The outfits some of these Old Farts wear should be in a magazine.  I tried to get a sneaky shot of one particular OF in pink patchwork pants but someone got in the way.  We were lucky enough to talk to some really nice folks and spent a couple of hours over there.

I caught these shots of the car carriers:

Understand, there are about 15 rows of these rigs and each one holds 6 to 8 cars.  Some of the owners, such as John Mozart, own their own rigs:

You can make out half of a Ferrari 250 GTO that's being unloaded.  It sold for $33 or $34 MILLION dollars.  We were told that there were 12 of them over at Laguna Seca on the track today, all worth about the same.

$34,000,000 and not one bathroom!  Who has this kind of money anyway?

We then drove over to Monterey to tour the cars that are going off at the various auctions, like Mecum, RM Auctions and Gooding & Company.  This little number . . .

a 1912 Henderson, was at auction the other night and had a bid of $195,000 in the room.  The owner refused to let it go as he "allegedly" has an offer of $250,000, and wanted to see if he could get more than that.

After hanging around the Portola Hotel for a few hours, we headed out the wharf to Domenico's for a late lunch / early dinner.

Cheers!  Dinner / or lunch or whatever, was good but not spectacular as it has been in the past.  Oh, well, they're not all winners.

We walked the wharf for a while and spied this pelican.

He's waiting patiently for some fishing boats to come in as they usually throw the heads and tails when they clean the fish - and probably other parts as well.

This little guy was having a grand old time with his strawberry ice cream cone.  What a doll face!

So, seeing strawberry ice cream . . .

we HAD to have some.  Well, Jay had pralines and cream but that pink thing is mine!  First one since March and it was quite tasty.

So back to The Tickle Pink we went and met Bob and Jan, and Beth and Bob for a quick glass of wine before they left to have dinner.

I'm pretty much packed as tomorrow it's the Concous d'Elegance at Pebble Beach and then an early departure on Monday morning.  We're both more than ready to go home and even thought the temperatures are way too hot in Dallas, it's HOME and that's where the heart is.  We'll be going to Palm Springs the first day and then on to Pioneertown for Jay to relive his youth for a little while.

More on that as we travel.

'Night all.