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<\/a><\/p>\nA view of the wharf<\/span><\/p>\n We decided to have lunch at the Harbor Restaurant<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 The food was delicious and the service was quite good.<\/p>\n The view from our table was fantastic!<\/span><\/p>\n We walked around the wharf and then went back to the car and drove to downtown.<\/p>\n A tourist trinket I bought at one of the shops<\/span>, a shell that’s been etched<\/p>\n Be afraid to go upstairs<\/span><\/p>\n The Ty Warner Sea Center<\/span><\/p>\n Pirate Cruises – we want to go sea lion seeing sometime<\/span><\/p>\n A cool float near the wharf<\/span><\/p>\n We did some shopping; Aviva found a great ethnic-look clothing, household and musical instrument store, Tienda Ho<\/a>, and I found a fantastic comic book shop, Metro Entertainment<\/a>; I got the first collection of the comic series “Air” and the first volume of “Echo”.<\/p>\n Two views of Tienda Ho<\/span><\/p>\n Tienda Ho business card<\/span><\/p>\n Metro Entertainment card<\/span><\/p>\n Then we walked down to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art<\/a>; its a small museum but has a nice collection starting with the impressionists through the symbolists.<\/p>\n The main entrance to the Santa Barbara Museum of Art<\/span><\/p>\n A detail of a mural outside the museum Salome,<\/strong> Odilon Redon, 1910<\/span><\/p>\n The Pardon<\/strong>, Jules Breton, 1872<\/span><\/p>\n A Roman table leg<\/span><\/p>\n We did a little more shopping after the museum, including the museum shop<\/a>, which carries the origami toilet paper.<\/p>\n Origami toilet paper<\/span><\/p>\n We saw some cool Peruvian paintings done in Colonial Spanish style here<\/span><\/p>\n We went back to the car and drove to a Thai restaurant, Zen Yai<\/a>; dinner was great, my Panang curry with chicken, green beans and peppers burned the front of my mouth off!\u00c2\u00a0 Good thing I had a glass of Thai iced tea to calm the fire.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n
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