Weekend in La Jolla

Over Memorial Day weekend, Jay and I headed to La Jolla, CA just outside of San Diego.  We were planning to see our friends Zach and Cheryl, their little guy Chaz, and do some scuba diving in La Jolla Cove.  We drove down that Friday night, intending to do our dive on Saturday.  But due to a storm earlier that week, visibility was not good and our dive was postponed till Sunday morning.

Instead, we walked the waterfront and visited with the harbor seals at Children's Beach. 

The seals swim up on the beach, the surrounding rocks, and sun themselves. The smell is not the best, but it was fun to watch them.  I was pretty excited about being in the water with them the next day!
Here's a very comfortable seal napping on a rock:

After watching the seals we headed for a delicious lunch at the Brockton Villa Restaurant.

The food was delicious, and the restaurant itself is beautiful.  The fireplace was covered in abalone shells.  That night we had dinner with Cheryl, Zach, and Chaz in old town San Diego.  Chaz was a lot of fun.  He had grown so much since the last time we saw him, and he was a chatterbox!  He has quite the vocabulary for a 2 year old - not surprising considering how intelligent his parents are!  We could've stay all night, but since we had an early dive trip, we headed back at a reasonable hour.

The next morning we headed out scuba diving with Rod from Dive San Diego.  We only got a few pictures - as you can see below, the visibility was still not great.  The seals were not out because some sea lions had come in, and they were busy fighting a turf war on the beach.  Also, I got very sea sick.  Again.  Without a boat.  But hey, look at the starfish!

Yeah, the seasickness was bad.  Apparently just being in the ocean makes me ill.  We had to cut the dive short, and getting back in was really tough for me.  I took some nausea medication, and slept the entire afternoon.  (I now have a prescription for scopolamine- I hope this helps because nothing else has.)  When I woke up, I felt much better.  Jay and I headed back to the waterfront for drinks and dinner at Azul  La Jolla - another fabulous meal! We watched the sun set over the cove, and headed back to the hotel. 

It was a great trip, but underscored for me that to continue diving, an activity I enjoy a lot, I need to find a solution for the nausea.  I feel so sick, it's hard for me to get comfortable underwater. I have also had to cut my dives short, missing out on a lot of fun.  Hopefully the scopolamine will work- if any of you diving friends of mine have experienced this, and have some advice, I would love to hear it!