Chill Jr's party was a blast.

Loud, noisy, yummy as usual, with a bunch of friends, screaming and craziness. I can't stop appreciating and admiring all the parents of Chill's friends who showed up on weekend morning for his party! In all the excitement I nearly forgot to hand over party favours to all those who came.


Meanwhile, Chill Jr is 3. Talks like a pro, knows numbers in 3 languages, and - technically - speaks some basic Spanish, can ride his tricycle with Mom-powered-support, draws, loves and is good at  - putting together construction sets, building houses and vehicles, sings a lot, very in-tune and obviously has a great musical ear, eats well and nearly everything (but would not eat something he can't really understand the contents and making of - sausage or cutlets, for instance, - while chicken drumsticks or steak would disappear from his plate in no time!), books and his "Squirrels" - Ikea mice. Smiley, sociable, great dancer and a lover of new shoes and nice clothes. Binge watched Peppa Pig cartoon for almost 6 months now. Becomes more interested in running and taekwondo (kicking, actually) so... might become my sports buddy in a dozen of years!

Stoped by Walmart to get duplicate keys to the condo

- as there're a number of interested potential tenants - some time during the "lunch break" (Ha!).
The first store associate I bumped into, who wanted to actually walk with me to the right isle was Brazilian, but not only Brazilian but also a soccer lover and a teacher.
For some reason his accent sounded Hungarian to me, and right from the start I told him I was Russian by origin...
...For the next 15 minutes we got carried away by the discussion of the FIFA World Cup, of how he is jealous of the friends who went to Russia to see it, and how he would love to go if he could but the prices seem unreasonable, and how it could have been a great chance for Russia to make a leap forward but for the corruption throughout the government, and how Brazil is actually worse, and that  - no, Russia is actually worse since unlike Brazil, no Russian president was jailed for corruption recently... well, ever!, and how - no, Brazil it's still the worst I'm telling you!
By this time my set of duplicate keys was ready. We parted quite content with the conversation and each other :)

The countdown to the Grand Vacance of the summer is officially less than a month. Can still hardly believe the location I was able to find, our planned sites to visit and the warm dry weather. Hard to believe all the circumstances are so favourable, - probably because if was the right time to come back. Finally.


Reality meanwhile brings down to Earth: the experience workpapers have been signed and now the Application has to be finalized and pushed through before we leave. I'm missing the Green Belt testing this Summer(also due to classes cancelled because of US Open Championship and Hangmadang in Colorado Springs)  - but whatever - I'll catch up in September.
The most intense things to complete before leaving for the Old World are finding tenants for the condo, completing Arthur's Kindergarten enrollment, holding Adrian's 3rd Brithday party and finalizing all the open status projects at work. That's not to count all the shopping to do for the trip, all tickets to be bough, all preparations to be made.... which will be eventually done timely and easily, of course, as usual. Still though...