holiday vacation just about over.

at the end of vacation... a little sleep drugged. sleeping in every day makes me want to nap more, how strange.
xmas with my family was warm and lovely with lots of home made gifts usually of the photographic variety... home made cards, framed photos, collages, etc.
we were given trapeze lessons by my stepbrother and his girlfriend. i will overcome my fear and fly on a flying trapeze!! so cool. so scary.
we hiked in beautiful point lobos and had xmas tamales and played scrabble.
then monk and i headed down the coast into the stormy lands of big sur. the storm began pretty much the day we headed down there, so we spent lots of time inside playing cards and snuggling..first in our funky little inn that has been around for years, and has journals from over the years...filled with bad poetry and drawings and fun things and people making fun of the bad poetry and expounding on the wonders and or beauty of big sur and commenting on the sex they had in the bed we'd be sleeping in (one entry: "Jesus I hope they wash these sheets!") (another entry: "we fucked, we slept, we fried, we frozed, what a honeymoon" that was our favorite)
i had one of the best meals i've had in a long time there... candle lit and cozy and low ceilinged and warm and wine and food and the best creme brulee of my life.
woke up to drive down the coast to esalen where we sat in hot sulfur pools built out on cliffs so the rocks and ocean are below and on out to the horizon from you. the sea wild wooly and wet. storming and roiling and beautiful gray and white with waves . the sky a silver and grey and blackness of rain clouds. an hour massage and then back to the baths for another hour. .. the rain falling on our faces...naked above the ocean. so nice. magical. way better than a sunny clear day in all ways.
then down the coast to a little rickety cabin on the edge of a cliff... sitting room and fireplace, b ig fourposter bed.
stepbro and his gf joined us for champagne and card games in front of our fire.
godzilla stayed with my parents and made friends (sort of) with Lomi the dog and they weren't ready to give him up ...but we came home, to a good 12 hours of Lord of the Rings (all 3 extended dvd's), lots of sleeping, too much movie sitting, cabin fever, new years parties with friends, dance dance revolution, brunches, and the planetarium at chabot.
i wish we hadn't sat on our asses (at my request) for so long watching movies, but otherwise it was a very relaxing week and big sur was the best it's ever been for me and i used to live awful close and have had lots of big sur face time. but this time? it did me best.
and here are some pics of my family, point lobos, whale bones and the view from one of our rooms in big sur.
back to work tomorrow.

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