Water Park

No camera’s Ugh!!! We decided to try to put the worry out of our mind and head out for a fun day at the water park outside of Riga. We took the train for the first time. I am continually amazed at our son and his ability to get anywhere. He knows the trains, the buses (we have not taken one yet) and he know the streets. The only thing he has not been able to find was a museum he really wanted to go to on Saturday. When we got back to the apartment and checked the map, we had walked within feet of it; it was just tucked into a side street.

When we got to the water park Tuesday, he literally “couldn’t wait” for us to hurry and get there. We went to Hesburger right outside of the park and ate and I barely had time to finish my burger before he was ready to go. We walked in and there is a BIG sign no camera’s (of course not in English either.) I was so, so disappointed because I wanted to capture the joy on his face. It really is time to let him just be a child, and this was the place to be it!

We bought all day passes, at his request. He made it about 3 ½ hours and was ready to go. Hint to others coming after us. All days passes seems to mean so much to them vs. 2 hours or 4 hours. You will probably not spend more than 4 hours, unless you have a lot of children with you and the lines are long. But for some reason this “all day” was very important and it was only a few dollars more than 4 hours.

We got home tired and happy. For the fourth night we used my laptop to watch a movie and snuggle in together. This one was a comedy we had not seen. I think we spent more time pausing it to work on vocabulary words he heard in the movie. It’s a very fine line watching movies with him. He is way beyond American teens in what he has seen, but we do not want to continue that level of exposure. He does not like the “kid” stuff, so we are trying to find movies he will enjoy, but that are not inappropriate either. Some of the things in this movie that I thought would go “over his head” not being his first language, he caught onto and wanted explained. That’s when I said “you’re the Dad you explain.” Just trying to find a way to explain the word “slang” was funny.

Lots of giggling going on here. And that’s good.

We are still praying for our “issue” here and for the phone to NOT ring and they tell us he has to go back. We see the social worker Wed. at 2pm local time (7am EDT) for our first visit. We are hoping she will find us a happy bonded family and tell this to the courts this Friday, so we can be granted the ability to bring him home.

Praying for the Lords will.