After breakfast, we decided that a trip to Downtown was in order, and so parked up at the Marketplace end and had a look around the shops. A few things were noted for potential purchase later in the holiday, and a few things were acquired for a certain young man's stocking which is hanging up on our villa.
Two trips to Ghiradelli's - one on the way past for the first time to pick up the free samples, and once on the way back to sit down and have chocolate malts with cookie and brownie.
Jake and I walked over to West side (whilst Nicky did the aforementioned Christmas shopping) and we made a beeline for the new Splitsville to take a look around. It is very nicely arranged, and whilst they have thirty bowling lanes, the aren't arranged in one long line, but rather in groups of four or five, dotted around across two floors, with dining and seating areas, and bars in between.
Upstairs there were a few pool tables, and Jake and I asked whether we could have a game. The staff member we spoke to explained that it was $9 per hour, but I said that we were only going to be there for about 15 mins (before we had to meet up with Nicky) and so they very kindly gave us the balls and let us play for free for a while.
As we were playing I texted Nicky to ask her to meet us there, which she did, so we actually ended up with rather a lot more than 15 minutes of free play. Once Nicky had arrived I went and spoke to our friend at the desk and explained that we going to be playing for a bit longer, and we should really start paying, and so they took our $9 and only started the hour clock then.
Nicky got the drinks in (two cokes and one long island iced tea) and Jake and I carried on enjoying the game. We ordered lunch (three pulled pork sandwiches) and whilst we ate we let a couple of American youngsters have a game on our table (they were polite as always seems to be the case when we meet American children).
After lunch we walked back over to the car and went to LBVFS where Nicky and I went in to Old Navy (Jake stayed in the car and played on his Vita). We got a fleece and some flip flops for me, and a fleece, cardigan and scarf for Nicky (total $42).
Back at OKW we've been hanging out at our villa. Jake and I went to go for a swim, but the pool was closed, so we played table tennis for a while.
Rumour has it that we might go to a park in the morning.
