Luxury at the Ritz

It's Friday and today we met up with TK, one of Karen's friends, and went to the Ritz Carlton in Half Moon Bay for lunch.

It was a lovely drive down along the coast and I couldn't believe how many places were selling hundreds of pumpkins ready for Halloween. They were laid out in the fields and as you came round the corner - that's all you saw, they were in the fields, on the farm buildings, there were huge 'models' of pumpkins - everywhere was orange.

Arrived and the car was taken by the valets to park, we were greeted like royalty and it reminded me of the scene from Pretty Woman when he takes her to his hotel.
We met TK who's really nice and was so interested in my travels and volunteering. We sipped champagne on the terrace and watched the sea breaking on the rocks and a few golfers pottering around the golf course - it was a such a beautiful sunny day too.

The call came to take our table for lunch and we ordered a cheese plate to share as a starter which had lots of cheeses I'd never tasted before, with fruit bread, apricot jam and red wine to wash it down. I had a bacardi cocktail and the waiter, Kasim, was really polite and helpful and had a great sense of humour. Lunch was leisurely with lots of talk and before we knew it, it was going on for 4pm.

We said our goodbyes to TK and Karen took me to La Honda which is Arianna's (Martin's girlfriend) parents house and where Martin filmed a great deal of the Real Gods film. Her mum Toni was there and we sat out on the deck, drinking red wine and enjoying the sun before it was time to go home.

It's been a lovely day.

Hope you're OK mam - see you soon

Love Sue. xx