Day 37 is my halfway point. It's weird - I simultaneously feel like I've lived here forever and for no time at all.
We had a good day today. We slept in until 8am (what a lie in!) and then lazed around eating breakfast, watching TV and deciding what to do that day. I did laundry and tidied up, as well as making apple and cinnamon muffins, which are amazing if I do say so myself.
We settled on a short roadtrip to San Juan Bautista, to see the Christian Mission. It's one of the few old buildings for miles around (it's true - the Americans' idea of history is very different to ours!) and is one of the only ones left intact. They were chapels and priest residences, built a day's ride apart all over California when conversion to Christianity was the most popular. California feels very Spanish anyway, but here Spanish was spoken as a first language, and the architecture, gardens and olive groves made just like being back in Mallorca or Southern Spain. It was a bit déjà-vu!
We had a good time wandering around the place. There was a funny moment when we walked into one of the chapels: it was pretty fancy, and Tegan just stood there with hands on hips and said "****, eh!?" I cracked up laughing, saying "could you get any more Australian!?", at which point she started giggling too and we left before anyone noticed...
Anyway, despite our childishness, it's a really pretty place. I'll probably wander back when I have a spare afternoon and take lots of photos. Hopefully the sun will last! It's really pleasant at the moment - high 20s and sunny during the day, cool and misty overnight. Apparently it rains a lot in November, so I'll need to squeeze in some sightseeing early on!
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