Vilnius

Well, we made it.  The whole, two-conferences-in-three-weeks thing was crazy-tiring, but we made it.  And I don't plan on leaving Klaipeda again for a long time.  :)

We went straight to the Canadian Embassy when we arrived in Vilnius on Thursday.  Picking up Andrew's Citizenship Certificate was uber-easy.  Taking pictures, on the other hand...

I told Phil to open his eyes wider...

ok, but... let's try one more.

ok, your eyes are open wide.  I got it.

Bethany and Andrew both wore Canada t-shirts for the occassion.

Next, we just wanted a picture of two kids (looking at the camera?) and a flag.

Easier said than done.

On Friday, the kids and I were planning on going to a big park with a playground in it, but the park was closed because they were getting ready for a Festival of Lights the following evening.  So we just found some other random little patch of grass to run around on.  Little kids are easy to please.

"Do you think I should eat some leaves?"

"Oh, maybe I shouldn't have done that..."

"Actually, it's not so bad."

After the park random patch of grass, we went here:

for ice cream.

Chocolate, if you couldn't tell.  And So. Good.

Andrew didn't get to have any.  Here's what he thought of that:

 On Saturday, we went to Vapiano.  Probably one of the coolest reastaurants I've been to.  Think cafteria-style, cook-it-right-in-front-of-you kind of thing.  And they had a play area.  Bonus.

We had pasta bolognese, if you couldn't tell.

This time Andrew did get to have some.  Here's what he though of that:

On Sunday we went to The International Church of Vilnius.  No pictures, but a neat story:  After the service I was talking with a guy from Norway.  He was talking about buying souvenirs from some tourist-y town or something.  He couldn't think of the English word for amber (a popular souvenir here), so he said it in Lithuanian, "gintaras".  "Oh yeah," I said, "amber."  Only at an International church would you have a Norweigan talking to a Canadian, tossing in terms in Lithuanian in order to be better understood.

So the weekend went pretty well.  And Phil was very happy with his talk at the conference.

Next up: trying to get Andrew to sleep through the night.  (The last couople of nights have been promising!)  After that, toilet training, second attempt.

At least we can never say life is boring.