Tuesday, September 25, 2018

Asya is ELEVEN!

Asya's birthday comes exactly two weeks after Jaan's. She also skipped a good bit of school on her birthday, while the rest of us worked. Then her friend Sonya came over to start the real celebrations. We played outside some, rode bikes, ate ice cream, and played games.



Next we went out to dinner. (Raia was at art class, but she joined us later.)



After dinner came the main event: ice skating. Asya wanted our whole family--and Sonya--to go ice skating. There's a big rink near us, but it's mostly used for hockey and lessons. They had one free skate hour yesterday evening. It turned out that we were the only people there during that time! We had so much fun. Other times that I've gone skating at other places, there have been huge crowds and everyone moving around in the same direction. Here we could just do whatever we wanted.






When our hour was up, Bogdan was really excited to see the ice get cleaned. And then a hockey team came! Our whole little group loved watching that for a few minutes. After all our bumbling around on the ice, they were in awe of how these guys could move.



Afterwards we walked Sonya home in the rain. The weather definitely feels like fall. And our very tired family fell into our beds, feeling like we had celebrated Asya's birthday very well.

2 comments:

Mom said...

Having the whole story adds so much to what I saw earlier on FB. Thank you for posting. Definitely Asya is a greatly loved and well celebrated eleven-year old...and we love all of you.

Anonymous said...

So happy to finally be able to see these pictures!! Spotty and limited internet as we traveled!! Looks like everyone had a WONDERFUL time!! We love you, Asya!! Baba Julie and Granddaddy