San Diego trip - 1st day

San Diego here we go!!!! 

We hesitated a little bit but finally we found the courage to go for it.

Tom started working a week after he took the boards (which we are truly grateful because it's a great blessing for us), and then the week after that the Dr was out of town for the whole week. We wanted to do something fun before we can't do it again (who knows when) not because we are rich but wanted to have some good memories for the months to come, where we'll be a little more busy, working and with another baby.
We drove on Tuesday early morning, stopped by IKEA, had lunch there and got to our final destination "Sea World". Joel just took a short nap on our way there, so he made it until after 4pm when we thought it was time to go to the hotel so he could take a nap, then look for something to eat.
We had a great time at Sea World!  Joel was very surprised and sometimes probably a little bit scared of what was going on at the shows, he was paying close attention and was very serious most of the time, the best part for him was that he had enough room to walk and run around whenever we let him go. He got really tired after all that.

Here Tom and Joel with the dolphin man!

We gave Joel some time to be a little bit free in this area, he had a good time running around and trying new things, except for one...

He didn't really like the tea cups....he wasn't very happy at all at the end!  But he made it!  Daddy was so proud of him!