We got up early and went up to the UCSC campus to help JoAnna and Marissa get ready for the beginning of the Dickens Universe on Friday. We were pretty busy in the morning, then had lunch at the new cafeteria in the university library with JoAnna, and then didn’t really have that much to do in the afternoon. We went back to Rick and Carolyn’s around 5:30, and then went back to Lighthouse Beach to watch the surfers and the otters (this time, Mark caught them on camera with his tele a couple of times–really cool). Then we headed back and had a lovely dinner with Rick and Carolyn — Rick made his fabulous BBQ chicken — and went to bed around 10 pm to be ready for an early morning.