Bad news from home

As it wasn't going to be a long drive today, we spent the morning shopping in Monterey.  Many of the stores are the same nationwide and they offer the same good value and quality not found anywhere else in the world.  This is a very blessed country in many ways.

We checked into the very luxurious Sofitel at Foster City ... probably the nicest hotel we've ever paid good money for ... only to realise that we had missed several phone calls during the drive from Kim's sister.  Unfortunately, their Mum is in hospital with yet more complications following chemotherapy.  The situation was extremely serious    :-(