Rob's visit went very quickly. :(

I'm sure his version of events will be a lot more interesting than mine. I dragged Rob out to see the $1,500 sofa, which he sat upon and worked it out mathematically for me. If I have the sofa for say, 20 years, then break the price down per month then by day to see what it really costs me, it came to something like 22 cents a day. "For less than the price of a cup of coffee a day, you could have this sofa," intoned Rob. "Or you could feed a starving child. Does a child starve or do you get this sofa?"

We then went to the less expensive furniture shop down the street where I purchased a loveseat in which both seats recline :) It'll be most excellent for video games. Yay! It gets delivered Saturday.

Broos joined us for a trip to the zoo. The "boys" convinced me that I didn't want to stand in line to see the panda bears, but we saw a variety of birds and beasts that made the trip a lot of fun. As we passed the giraffe exhibit, Rob noticed one of the concrete pillars in their enclosure was marked at various heights so zoo-goers could measure the giraffes. "Looks like they're expecting a robbery," he commented, bringing to my mind's eye the image of a masked giraffe holding up a local 7-eleven.

Post-zoo, we had a lovely dinner of red meat at Bully's in Del Mar. Rob reduced poor Broos to profanity when the waitress handed us our menus and Rob opened his up studiously saying, "Well! What kind of salads do they have here?"