Catalina

This looks like a very old photo to me. However, I think it was taken only about 4 years ago. I like Catalina Island. It's a very relaxing place and it has the BEST miniature golf course (at least I think so). My grandmother took my sister and I there when were were kids for weekend vacations a couple of times. That was when the only way to get there was on the SS Catalina steam ship. They had a dance band on the boat and a clown (Catalina Cappy).

The docking pier was in the middle of Avalon harbor, not off to the side like it is now. Kids used to swim out to the incoming boat begging for coins. I always wanted to be one of those kids.

One of these day's I'm going to go camping there. I like camping and don't do it nearly often enough. I don't, however, like camping when I know there are bears around. They scare me and I don't get much sleep. Probably silly, as most bears would rather eat what's in my cooler than me (it doesn't fight back or make noise), still, it's one of those phobias that limits what I do sometimes.

I would also like to go dancing in the ballroom at the top of the Casino one of these days. Such a beautiful room! I had been to Catalina for several years before I ever took the Casino tour. I had even been to movies in the theater downstairs and heard the pipe organ. But I love the ballroom with the parquet floor and the Art Deco design. Very beautiful and elegant. I can see myself dancing a waltz or a cha cha in there. Some day....