" Mike replied finishing up with his shower. When Mike returned to the boat Terri still wasn't there. Reckoning she must still be up... at the bathhouse he picked out a casual outfit to wear to dinner and started dressing. Just as he was finished dressing, except for slipping on his shoes Terri came strolling through the open door wrapped in a full body towel. "Give me ten minutes and I'll be ready too." She said to Mike as she walked toward him and allowing her. Several year ago when I was in my mid 40's, I was traveling to the west coast and had a chance to visit Santa Cruz. There was a spa that features massages, but also has hot tubs, cool tubs, sunbathing, and sauna among its services - all clothing optional. Many, even most, people go there and never get a massage; usually they enjoy the hot tub, sauna, socializing outdoors or reading in the quiet areas indoors. What a wonderful place and it is only blocks from downtown.Santa Cruz is a small. ‘looks like we’re being good girls this evening.’ ‘Don’t be sad Ali puss,’ said Nicola, using her father’s pet name for her. ‘There’s always tomorrow, or the next day at a pinch. Besides, I have a cunning plan. We can’t stay in Fort William and not climb Ben Nevis, and now we have two hunky mountain guides to keep us safe, and we’ll be so *very* grateful once we get down…’ And that, pretty much, is how Nic and Ali got on the hill. They returned to the boys and artfully dragooned them into. Proper office etiquette of course prevented her from indulging her curiosity, but she wasn’t wrong. Sean McManus had come into the office on this day looking particularly sad and downtrodden because he was. Paula was willing to wager something was eating at him, having a hunch about these things, and it sometimes plagued her wondering what sort of maladies the more crestfallen, downcast individuals grappled with. Sometimes her curiosity almost got the better of her. But, she had signed on to be.