Thursday 5th August

We still had the car so we went to the local Ross and Marshall's an did a bit of shopping. We had to return car by 12.30 and managed to do that about 5 minutes walk from the hotel in Walnut Creek. Fay had the girl's night our in SF so she departed with Colleen and half a dozen others and took the BART into SF. They had the night at a restaurant next to the place the bucks night happened the night before. Ben and I went to happy hour (free drinks and nibbles from 5 till 7.30) then to Italian Restaurant. By the time we got there, we had decided that we would share a pizza. It it was an Italian restaurant that didn't do pizzas. We ended up getting paste dishes that were much too large. Another salutary lesson from the US. At about 11 I had to walk across the road to the Bart station to escort Fay to the hotel.