Doodle Day

For Tesfa's one year anniversary home we headed to the beach. He did really well until about 6p.m. when all we could find to eat was a Perkin's. As soon as we sat him down he screamed and we both had a little fit. So we got his food to go before we even orderd for ourselves. He ate his pizza in the car and we headed to the hotel. I had tried to plan so well. I found a hotel about 7 hours away and made sure it had an indoor pool. One thing I didn't check was to see if the pool was heated...it was not. So we got in a very chilly pool and tried to make the best of it. Tesfa was not very thrilled until he and I sat on the edge of the pool and I began kicking and splashing his daddy. He joined in and laughed so loud.

The next morning we set off to get to our destination. We couldn't find a grocery store and by the time we did it was time for lunch. So we arrived a couple hours later than expected. Now mind you this is our first trip with a Doodle. So overall I can't complain. It could have been ugly-very ugly spending that much time in the car on Tesfa Day. Luckily once we arrived things went much better. It rained the first few days so we (The Ornsteins and Harcars) headed to Kids City and to an aquarium. The next day it was nice and we went to a small beach. Day four it was gorgeous and we headed to the ocean. It was cool and we didn't really get in the water but Tesfa loved it. He and Ben played in the sand, chased bubbles and and ran after sea gulls.

The last night in CT. we stayed with some friends I hadn't seen in almost two years. There son, Connor, is really quite the musician so we were sure he and Tesfa would be a good fit.