Day 52 - New food outlet at last

In the morning we planned to go to the children's art gallery with Georgia on Vilnius g. 39. But on the way I stopped at the felt shop to show Larisa my hat. Spent an hour there as she continued opening up my eyes. She was really good with Georgia and offered to her a free reign of the shop. Georgia was free to do entirely as she pleases. How many store owners would do such a thing. I got some wool to make a few more hats and a scarf. It is all in the labor since the wool costs less than 5% of the cost of the finished product.

Next we walked a bit longer among the stores in that area and finished on the playground there. Then Dan met up with us and we went to the restaurant we found a while earlier - it is called the Moon Valley and is located next to the Coffee Inn on Didžioji gatve. The waiters are really nice and the guy spoke really good Russian. The food was really good but we waited for a long time for it and it was the most expensive lunch in this country. It does not look like such an expensive place. So I would recommend it with the reservations.

After Georgia's nap we did letters and I was shocked to see her read a few words by herself. This was equialent to her taking her first steps. So cool.

Then Vitalik and his family came. Vitalik and Dan went out to get pizza. Vitalik brought a menu from Cili Pica for our growing collection. We will now be able to boldly go the same place Lithuanian had been going all this time. They also brought Lithuanian version of the caramels called "korovka." Not to say that our trip to Riga was in vain, but next time we will get this candy locally. They also brought marzipan candy surrounded by a shell of dates. The murderers.

It is enjoable to watch the kids grow over such short time period. They had been kind of upset about Ilyusha who does not speak still even though he turned 2 recently. Dina asked him to say a a couple of different words today and he did, perfectly, like he was practicing saying them for months. Georgia impressed us too, again today. Prior times she started crying whenever Ilyusha tried to take her doll stroller with Marty or her own stroller. But today she did not mind so much the former, and actually herself offered the latter with a bow. But after Vitalik left she asked if they would come again because she is not sure she would be able to take it anymore to see her Marty being taken away :) But it was a step forward today.