Like the siren’s song of legends old, we have been lured in by the free parking, fantastic WiFi, great solar exposure, beautiful weather, and the onsite water spigot and trash can of the Lucky 7 casino.  We’ve been here three days and counting.  What more could one ask for?

To assuage our guilt, Trish went over last night and put $5 into the slots.  Thanks for taking one for the family, honey.

Trish and our son went to the beach to collect stones for an art project, proving that there’s no such thing as an activity that can’t be made to sound like a legitimate home schooling experience.  On the way back, they spied a snail:

Meanwhile, I was introducing the Scratch programming environment to our daughter.  Beachcombing it wasn’t, but we still had a great time:

After school, we continued working on the art project:

I went for an after-lunch bike ride north to Oregon:

Highway 101 is flat, but I found a couple of 25% grades (that’s seriously steep folks) to climb and get above the fog below:

Meanwhile, back at the ranch, our kids continued working on their ship:

In the afternoon, I took them for a walk at low tide and we found a fishing float.  It was encrusted with marine life, so we didn’t take it home:

Reminds me of the housing density along route 306 back home:

Have a great Shabbos, our first in a casino’s RV parking lot!