»The feral donuts of Santa Cruz.

Aram, Mary, Anna, and I trekked down early (although not too early that we weren't able to enjoy a Coopers coffee and Aram&Mary's famous granola on the benches at the corner of Duboce and Sanchez) to Año Nuevo State Park. At this park, northern elephant seals come to calve and mate once each year.

Much to our delight, the new management of Ferrell's Donuts on Mission St. have merged operations with Marianne's Ice Cream. The cones were a little stale and the ice-cream delivery slightly underwhelming (although we got two huge scoops when we asked for one), but this was a tasty end to a nice trip to the area. An end, because as we were heading from our Marianne's stop to the Mushroom festival, we were recalled to San Francisco with an urgent invitation to dinner at a freshly-remodeled La Mooné (now Bistro ditto).