Today I took the opportunity to spend the day on a rented boat and journey out to a reef in the Red Sea to do some snorkeling. The people I went with were Scuba diving, but I was going just to snorkel. The reef is about 60km into the Sea, and took about 1-1.5 hours to reach. All told, I was gone from 9-4pm. Total time spent snorkeling? About 20 minutes. That was including a couple of times I had to pause and feed the fishies…with some vomit. Yes, the seas were rough and I was quite seasick for the majority of the day. And you know what? Nothing a person sees is all that impressive when they feel nautious and pukey. Ah well. All in all, I did get to see a few neat things, including a small shark, some marlins, and the coolest thing; a school of dolphins that swam before our boat.
In other news, Jakob took his first steps today! Although, what exactly qualifies as a baby’s first steps? How do you know if it really is their first steps? We figure today was the first time he got up on his own steam, stood still for a bit, then proceeded to walk, in control, for 4-5 steps. Pretty cool, huh?
