What a weekend

Spouse and I went to Catalina this weekend to celebrate our 9th wedding anniversary. We stayed at the Zane Gray Hotel. If you read western novels or watch western movies, you most likely have seen his work. The hotel was originally his house, built in the 1920s. Its biggest selling point, no phones or TV's in the rooms. No Internet access on site and each room is named after one of his books. The hotel only has about 12 rooms and he wrote about 70 or more books.

We stayed in a room with an ocean view and was incredible to see Avalon Harbor at night.

While there is one 20 inch TV and VCR player in the lounge, we didn't watch any. Instead, we played the game Settlers. We first played it a week ago at a friends house and then played it Friday, Saturday and Sunday of this weekend. The game is a lot of fun and even better, can be packed in one l gallon zip lock bag so easy to carry around as well.

We had a blast on Catalina and were sorry to have to come home and back to work. But such is life.