May 18, 2005

• For better or worse, thus endeth Dmitry's first full year in an American school. 

  As a surprise for him, I went by and collected the older Waybourn boys
  so they were in the van when Dmitry was picked up.  Gracious, he's
  not terribly observant about some things, is he?  There was Dan
  sitting in the front passenger seat, with the other two in the back,
  yet Dmitry didn't notice them until he started to open the sliding door
  to dump his backpack. 

  Dan, especially, thought it most amusing.  The important thing, of
  course, is that Dmitry was surprised and delighted at the completely
  unexpected appearance of his best friends.  I'd planned to take
  them to Main Event Entertainment for pizza, video games, laser tag, and
  bowling, but doggoned if the place wasn't closed for a private party
  when we arrived, and not scheduled to be reopened to the public for
  over two more hours.

  The boys declared they'd willingly take CiCi's Pizza as a substitute,
  and then asked to go to the park, running by the house first to get the
  bike, which they took turns riding.

  

  Here's Zhenya on it.

  

  Joe taking a turn.

  

  Dmitry's getting pretty decent on it, as well, though he's got a ways to go to be as adept as Joe.

  While at the house I fetched leftover bread and hamburger buns so the
  ducks and birds could be fattened up.  Turns out squirrels will
  eat it, too, with Joe stalking a squirrel around a tree (it was quite
  funny to watch), though Dan settled for trying to entice a pigeon to
  take bread from his hand.

  Didn't work, unfortunately.

  Afterwards it was off to Blockbuster to choose a game, then back to the
  house to hang out for a couple of hours.  It was good to hear so
  much Russian spoken again.  I'd missed it.

  • 7:11 pm
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