I couldn’t sleep – I kept having the urge to check on them, but I was also afraid of waking them up. Funny, they didn’t get up until we went in to get them up. LOL! With very little prompting, they marched into the bathroom, went potty, brushed their teeth and patiently waited for me to put their clothes on (all of the above one at a time of course). Then an amazing thing happened. The bathroom is attached to Adam and my bedroom. I keep their clothes and stuff in there. After I got them dressed, they neatly folded up their pajamas and put them on top of one of the suitcases. Then they made our bed. I’m not kidding. They did ask for help with the comforter (not in English, but we can still understand them). Then they went into their room and made their bed. I’m not making that up.
After breakfast, we went out in the van to the Lion Zoo. We picked up other families along the way and took them to HoH to be united with their kids. At the zoo, it seemed like Serawit was a little scared (she clung to me and eventually I picked her up and carried her) and Aman was simply fascinated. There was a couple of cages with monkeys and they were both pretty excited about that. It was kind of sad because the Lions are in literal cages with concrete floors.
After lunch, we went to the Hilton to use the internet, so Facebook and e-mail got checked. Then we went to National Museum. The kids were both very good, but as fascinated as Aman was, Serawit was bored. I carried her for most of the time. The main room on the first floor had bigscreen TVs talking about some of the early human excavations and both kids just stared transfixed at the TV – guessing they don’t watch it much – just wait until they see ours (and theirs)! We also got to see Lucy. I remembered studying her in school.
After dinner (where Tseguy and his wife Almaz came in to see us), I gave the kids baths and washed their hair for the first time. I also put Sera’s hair in “pom poms” for the first time. I hope they came out ok.