Thanks to Our Savior's Lutheran Church, we have a new family picture. As those of you who just got our 2008 Christmas card in the mail, the kids are growing like crazy and my hair is getting longer. Last Sunday they snapped this photo of us for their new directory and surprised us with a copy of it in an email.Today was National Train Day and although we didn't go to Los Angeles for our "local" celebration, we did go to San Juan Capistrano and eat a yummy breakfast in a train car at the Vintage restaurant. This place is right next to the train tracks/station and is a steak house that is also open for breakfast and lunch and part of the restaurant is two train cars that have been turned into dining rooms. Einar ordered pancakes and a scrambled egg. I had eggs benedict the traditional way and Jared had his with ham, gruyere cheese and sauted mushrooms. Soren had a piece of toast with butter and jam and some of Einar's eggs. It was all really good and lots of fun to eat a fancy meal in a train car.
After breakfast we walked around the building to see the trains and visit with a horse named Popcorn. Then it was off to Point Loma for a family adventure day.
"Hey, do you hear the ocean?" Here we are at Sunset Cliffs Natural park over looking the Pacific Ocean in Point Loma. Point Loma is the northern point of San Diego Bay. There were lots of surfers enjoying the waves down at the bottom of the cliffs. There is a National cemetery there as well as a National Monument to Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo, the Portuguese explorer who sailed under the Spanish flag and was the first European on the shores of California. He only made it to the Channel Islands off of Santa Barbara before he injured himself, contracted gangrene and died, but he did claim this part of the world for Spain in the process.
This is looking out over San Diego. We saw a couple of Navy jets fly over and lots of sailboats today from the point. There was a marine layer that kept threatening to limit the view, but it didn't block the sunshine too much and we had a lovely day.
Heading down to the water (we didn't make it that far since it was high tide and we don't surf yet). Don't jump Einar!
Visiting with a 17 year-old horse named Popcorn at the San Juan Capistrano train depot.
"When will I be big enough for my parents to order me my own meal and not just a piece of toast?"
Here are the guys just after the breakfast came. Check out the size of the pancakes! He ate all but a few bites of them.
Soren can now open the many doors that we have in our house with French doorknobs. Here he is reaching for the handle and letting himself in from the deck. The picture is kind of cloudy since our door is so dirty. It's kind of hard to keep glass clean with a toddler and a preschooler going in and out all of the time with their sticky, grimy hands.
"Watch out, here I come!"
