Some things I have done on my holidays

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Walked myself off my feet; seen a flock of green parakeets squabbling themselves to sleep; eaten a fish tostada with black beans, grilled sweet potato and three kinds of salsa; bought a dozen American-size dessert spoons, three secondhand books [1] and a small terracotta horse; walked up a very steep hill and caught a trolleybus (full of little old Chinese ladies) down it; failed to get into Chez Panisse (sadface); sampled my way around a farmers market, ending up buying one white-fleshed nectarine; laughed at sealions (two of them, ORK ORK ORKing at each other- one shoves the other off the raft and into the sea; he swims round, hauls himself out, and shoves the first one off. Meanwhile, the half-grown youngsters on the raft ignore both of them); been bemused by a choice of thirty kinds of granola (Pumpkin Spice is quite tasty); heard many interesting anecdotes about UC Berkeley; had coffee sorbet, Valrhona chocolate ice-cream, coriander and candied orange ice-cream, and darjeeling and cinnamon ice-cream; been soundly ignored by a couple of cats.
When my cousin gets home, we'll start being a bit active...

[1]You've badgered it out of me with your questions, questions- James White, Mercedes Lackey, George Orwell.