re: serve

Yup. Got another summons to the reserves (Miluim to all you Israeli people types out there). This happened despite the fact that I had told my guys in the army that I was abroad several times. So I called them again and had a long conversation with the head dude.

We talked a little and I told him where I was and what I was doing and that I wouldn't be around for a few months. We then started talking about some of the other guys who had gone abroad. He reminded me of one of my guys who had gone to the US several years ago. I had completely forgotten about that. So I looked him up and found out that he was living in San Diego. This was quite the coincidence because we were set to go to San Diego the following weekend!

After the week had passed we set out toward San Diego. It was a long drive (6-7 hours) and there was nothing to see along the way. Tessa was grading her papers and I had to deal with the border patrol checkpoints that somehow failed to notice all the Mexicans we had hidden in the back.

Roy (the lost army guy) and Laura (his girlfriend) welcomed us into their home and after some introductions, re-introductions, and some pizza we all went to sleep.

We spent a couple of days just wandering around San Diego. We checked out the old town and the gas lamp quarter, walked around Balboa park, went to the zoo, and wandered around in La Jolla.


We were contemplating whether or not we should go to Sea World, after one of Tessa's colleagues said that we were probably old enough not to enjoy being splashed with "feces filled water". After some recommendations from Roy and Laura we decided to go there and one of the highlights, at least for me (muhahah!), was to see other people getting soaked.


During our last night there we went to see a live comedy show. This was the reason we were in San Diego to begin with. We had purchased the tickets in advance and were very excited to go and see Russell Peters perform live.

To finish our visit on a high note Laura and Roy showed us around for awhile and we ended up on the beach to soak our feet a bit.


A little lunch, some ice-cream and we were back on the road!

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P.S. Thanks Roy&Laura for your hospitality - it was so good we may just have to come back!