News from the Jacobs family in Saudi Arabia
This batch is mostly pictures of us at one beach or another. We spent a short time on a beach in La Jolla, California where the kids enjoyed the waves and we saw a distant brown smudge on a far rock that was almost certainly a seal. In tamer waters we spent some time on Devil’s lake as well as Lake Superior.
Here is a video of us at a beach in La Jolla Shores. The waves were a bit much for the kids so Crystal was doing her best to keep them out of the water. As I took the video I was standing in the (freezing) water up to my ankles – the dialogue is a bit hard to decipher due to the wind but it all revolves around Kai and Nora busting me for standing in water when they can’t.
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The last day we spent in San Diego we visited the Birch Aquarium in La Jolla which the GPS Navigator pronounced phonetically as La Joe-la. Kidding aside, driving in new territory with a GPS Navigator is such a marvel of the modern age. No more fiddling with maps ahead of time, just jump in the car and go! I remember our very first GPS was in a car we rented in Germany several years ago. I swear when we missed a turn the German woman’s voice would get a disappointed edge to it as it recalculated our route. Not so with our current model. Crystal programmed in an Australian accent for our current unit and it never runs out of patience.
After the aquarium we let the GPS direct us down the coast for a visit to a beach – we figured it would be a shame to have visited Southern California without at least being on a beach for a few minutes. The beach was nice but the water was pretty rough with signs posted warning of dangerous rip currents so we kept Kai and Nora back as well as we could. The water was freezing so I’m surprised that they wanted to go near the water at all but they were keen to get their feet wet. One bonus was the seal we saw sunning itself on a rock a little ways from shore.
Our last major stop of the day was the USS Midway – a carrier put into service shortly after WWII which saw its last action during Desert Storm. Now a museum it was amazingly well done. If you are ever in San Diego I highly recommend this attraction. They had actual aircraft up on the deck spanning the years the carrier was in service and the self-directed audio tour was top notch. I’ve never been on a carrier before and I was blown away. Kai too. He was most taken with the missles and bombs; Nora’s big question was “where do they brush their teeth?” We thought it would be a quick walk through and we’d be on our way before the kids got bored but we ended up staying a long time – especially on the flight deck with the planes.
Enjoy the pictures!
