March 1 PM - Some Activity

Today we went to Walmart to get some prescriptions filled and worked the timing so that we could walk over to In and Out Burger and have lunch while we waited on the prescriptions. I like going to that place. The burgers and fries are good but even better is watching the workers while waiting on your food. You get a number on your receipt when you order. Our number was 85 and they were handing out food to people who had numbers in the low 70's when I started waiting for our food.

There are a LOT of people working behind the counter and they keep BUSY. You don't see any of them standing around. What is really interesting is that most of them are smiling a lot of the time. By the time we finished eating they were serving numbers in the 20's. From the time we ordered to the time we were leaving they had served around 40 customers inside. I don't have any idea how many drive thru customers they served during that time, but I'm sure it was a lot. The drive thru line always has a line waiting.

Have I mentioned the cost of living in California? I saw a gas price $4.39/gallon for regular today. The two prescriptions I had refilled are the $10 for 3 month prescriptions, at least that is what they are in Lebanon. In California pharmacies sued Walmart because they were selling drugs to cheap. Instead of paying $10 in Indiana people get to pay $24 for the same thing in California. I ended up paying $48 for two prescriptions in California instead of the $20 I would have paid in Indiana.

On our way back we stopped a couple of places and walked along the shoreline. The wind was a little brisk but the sun was brilliant.

Since we were "downtown" we also had to stop at Cash and Carry, the restaurant supply place. This is the parking area. The store has the same roof framing. They apparently just took a huge old building, built an interior wall, and turned part of it into the store while leaving the other part for parking.

This is the meat and cheese walk in cooler. There is an interior wall between it and the dairy walk in cooler. The two of them take up around 1,800 sq ft.

The vegetable cooler isn't quite that big nor is the walk in freezer. I went into the walk in freezer just to see what frozen foods they had, but I didn't stay long. The thermometer said the temperature in the freezer was 10 degrees below zero.

All in all it was a nice day. We had planned on going to the San Francisco botanical garden today but it was rainy this morning so we postponed our trip until tomorrow. Of course tomorrow is Friday and we will probably need to hit the downtown farmers market before we head into San Francisco.

Good night to all and may God bless you and yours.