Olegs and Christina arrived at the flat at 2:00 (right on time). They both had full backpacks so that meant they were spending the night. YIPPEE! I greeted them both with big hugs and kisses and asked them how their day was at school. We visited for a few minutes before Christina asked what we would be doing. They always have to be doing something, you know. Sitting around visiting just isn’t cool. I decided not to bring up the court session unless they asked about it. It’s not an easy time for Olegs right now so I didn’t want to make him sad. This was our time to have fun. Christina did ask me about it later and I told her that Robert and I are officially her new parents. She just gave me a big smile and then we moved on to something else.
I went ahead and gave them their birthday presents so they’d have something to do while hanging out at the flat. Robert and I got them each an outfit and a fun item. We got Olegs “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots” which is a game consisting of two plastic robots in a boxing ring. You make them punch each other and the one who makes the other robot’s head pop up is the winner. Anyway, it’s one of those classic games that never goes out of style. We got Christina some paint-by-number paintings to work on since she loves art. Olegs was happy that I brought his Twister game and some of his other toys. He was a little disappointed that I didn’t bring his remote control car so I promised him I’d bring that next time. I wasn’t sure if I should bring that since it eats up batteries. I guess maybe we can send him batteries every so often for it.
We tried meeting up with Ilga to go to the party she told us about earlier but we were unable to reach her. It was fine though. We still had plans to meet up with her and Janis for dinner. I needed to go to the Maxima grocery store to purchase some more minutes for my Latvian cell phone, so that gave us some time to do that since I needed the kids to help me. We tried calling Ilga again but couldn’t get her so we decided to go to Rimi, the nicer grocery store, and pick up some things for them to eat for an afternoon snack. Christina picked out a piece of baked chicken at the deli and Olegs decided he wanted a cheese sandwich so he got cheese and bread. Ilga had already helped me buy a birthday cake for them so that was going to be a surprise for later.
When Ilga got off work, she and Janis came to pick us up for our evening outing. They took us to a fun place called Go Planet Fun & Games where we got to see a 4D movie and wear the funny glasses. The kids were all excited to go to this place because they had never been but heard all about it from their friends who went. The movie was only 15 mins. long but it was an adventure. It was an animated futuristic underwater movie set in the year 2080 (or something like that). There were underwater spaceship things and mermaids, etc. At various points of the movie there would be earthquake scenes and our seats would shake, then there were creatures that would swim toward us and spit water on us, at which time water would shoot out from somewhere and hit us in the face. Then there was air that would blow on us and make us feel like we were part of the movie. Very fun!
After our movie, we walked around and looked at some of the other fun stuff like the go-carts, etc. I’m sure the kids wanted to drive them but they were expensive and I think they were too young to drive them anyway. We were getting hungry so the next stop was Big Lido. I know, I need to try food at some other restaurants but it’s just so good at Lido and there are so many choices. Big Lido is the one where they have the ice skating rink but we didn’t skate this time. We all ate ourselves sick and then went back to the flat. Nobody wanted cake so hopefully we can enjoy that tomorrow before I leave.
I went ahead and gave them their birthday presents so they’d have something to do while hanging out at the flat. Robert and I got them each an outfit and a fun item. We got Olegs “Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots” which is a game consisting of two plastic robots in a boxing ring. You make them punch each other and the one who makes the other robot’s head pop up is the winner. Anyway, it’s one of those classic games that never goes out of style. We got Christina some paint-by-number paintings to work on since she loves art. Olegs was happy that I brought his Twister game and some of his other toys. He was a little disappointed that I didn’t bring his remote control car so I promised him I’d bring that next time. I wasn’t sure if I should bring that since it eats up batteries. I guess maybe we can send him batteries every so often for it.
We tried meeting up with Ilga to go to the party she told us about earlier but we were unable to reach her. It was fine though. We still had plans to meet up with her and Janis for dinner. I needed to go to the Maxima grocery store to purchase some more minutes for my Latvian cell phone, so that gave us some time to do that since I needed the kids to help me. We tried calling Ilga again but couldn’t get her so we decided to go to Rimi, the nicer grocery store, and pick up some things for them to eat for an afternoon snack. Christina picked out a piece of baked chicken at the deli and Olegs decided he wanted a cheese sandwich so he got cheese and bread. Ilga had already helped me buy a birthday cake for them so that was going to be a surprise for later.
When Ilga got off work, she and Janis came to pick us up for our evening outing. They took us to a fun place called Go Planet Fun & Games where we got to see a 4D movie and wear the funny glasses. The kids were all excited to go to this place because they had never been but heard all about it from their friends who went. The movie was only 15 mins. long but it was an adventure. It was an animated futuristic underwater movie set in the year 2080 (or something like that). There were underwater spaceship things and mermaids, etc. At various points of the movie there would be earthquake scenes and our seats would shake, then there were creatures that would swim toward us and spit water on us, at which time water would shoot out from somewhere and hit us in the face. Then there was air that would blow on us and make us feel like we were part of the movie. Very fun!After our movie, we walked around and looked at some of the other fun stuff like the go-carts, etc. I’m sure the kids wanted to drive them but they were expensive and I think they were too young to drive them anyway. We were getting hungry so the next stop was Big Lido. I know, I need to try food at some other restaurants but it’s just so good at Lido and there are so many choices. Big Lido is the one where they have the ice skating rink but we didn’t skate this time. We all ate ourselves sick and then went back to the flat. Nobody wanted cake so hopefully we can enjoy that tomorrow before I leave.
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