The burned-down restaurant, luckily, was the last time we were at the ocean, with hrymfaxe! :D I kept having this nightmare of going to our hole-in-the-wall little Italian joint and finding it gone. (Not uncommon in OC, especially during the recession ...) But all the restaurants we expected were still there this time!

We do indeed try to make the best of bad situations. Really awful or odd experiences tend to get turned into jokes in our family. Fenwick Inn has been known as "Room from Hell" in our family for years now (yet we keep staying there ...) We laugh about it. Then my dad writes a letter. Then we get a free night's stay. It's all good, in the end. ;)