Today was Dave's last day of summer and it has been almost a month since we've moved here officially so it was finally time to take care of something we've been putting off till the end... The nightmare trip to the DMV... I'd say the DMV has been one of our least favorite places to go to in NYC and last year Madison and I had to make numerous frustrating trips in order to obtain a new set of license plates after our old ones got stolen... And on top of that I was not too thrilled and ready to switch out our NY drivers license to CA ones since I've been having a bit of NYC-homesickness lately... But we had to take care of it today so we headed out in the early morning to a DMV we picked that was close to Dave's school so that we could combine a trip to drop off some of his classroom stuff... When we got there, there was a lot of people, but our number was called before we were even done with filling out our papers so that was a nice surprise... What was not a nice surprise was that we found out we could skip a driving test but would have to take a written test again in order to get a CA license... Oh great...:-( Dave didn't seem concerned and said it would be really easy, but I was a bit worried and nervous about it... We went over to a different counter to take pictures and after that we started to take the test. Dave volunteered to hold Madison while he took the test since he thought it would be really easy... Well he was wrong... Not only was Madison a pain in the butt the whole time we were taking the test by squirming and screaming, etc, but the test was hard!! Even Dave thought it was really hard and we just barely passed it! Those Californians take driving very seriously! And you can imagine we were so happy about that...:-) I thought I would list a few of the tough questions here, but I left the test in the car so that will be in the next post...
夕ご飯の後、海辺へ散歩に行って来ました。丁度日が降りて来ていたからナイスシャッターチャンスと写真を撮りました...
After dinner, we went outside for some family relaxing time on the beach... The sun was just setting so I thought it would be a great time to take some pictures to share...
Madison is getting really comfortable in the sand...
砂の上に座るのに慣れて来たマディソン...
Here she munches on a log of some kind while Daddy poses for the picture...
デイブがカメラ目線で写真を撮っている時に何か変な棒を口に入れている...
Then Madison stuck her face in the sand...
砂を食べようとして顔を砂に入れたマディソン...
Her chin shows the remnants of the mud created when you put a bunch of sand in your mouth...
砂一握りを口に入れた時の汚れた口回り...
Who said Long Beach doesn't have waves...
ロングビーチにもちゃんと波あるみたい...
Our building is the one on the right...our apartment is on the exact opposite side...
私達のアパートは右側の高い建物...私達の部屋は正反対側...
Heading back in...
アぱートに戻ります... おやすみ...
If the test is so hard, why are there so many crazy drivers in California? :) We were also surprised by a written test when we moved to Idaho. The normal questions weren't too bad but there were a bunch of questions about Idaho driving laws and we had no idea. But luckily we passed.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're adjusting well, but sorry you're a little homesick. It always takes a while to get used to a new place, even if you end up loving it. Hang in there!