Friday Freedom, No Pillows, Buffalo Cops and Pancakes on his own.....

Road Trip!

This past weekend offered a short respite from the duties of hosting our guy.   We had to have Cybil up and out the door by 6:30 am, oops...make that 7:00 am to get him on the bus to Buffalo, New York for a 4 day romp through upstate New York and Niagra falls.  I had made a mistake thinking the busses left at 7.  Cybil could have slept an extra 30 minutes.

We load the kids on, wave goodbye and I head off to work.  I get home on Friday night and have NOTHING I need to do.  I can eat cold pizza, drink adult beverages, not cook, not go to a football game or pickup from practice.  I was feeling empty nest syndrome now that the boy was away for 10 hours.  WHAT?  I was a bit out of sorts at first...but got back into my groove quickly, then around 9:30pm.....

I get my first text, "Me and Sarah skipped the dance and we are walking all over town."  I am assuming the town of Buffalo? Then at 11:33pm I get my second text from the boy, "Oh my gosh, you are not going to believe what happened".  I was asleep and got it at 5:33am the next morning.  After that, no more texts.  Thinking back to when I was 17 and what I would get into....I could only imagine.  As I have said before, this kid is not my kid, but there are many genetic similarities.......outside of his height, blond hair, russian descent...the likenesses are endless.

Saturday, nothing explaining what happened, in fact just a question on how the Phightin Phillies were doing.  OK, so he didn't get arrested and end up on the cookie sheet............or did he????  I was to find out on Monday night.....

Consolidating Down To One Bedroom

During his time away, I broke down and moved the OTHER guest room mattress into his bedroom to control the trail from room to room.  He is now securely in one room again, happy with a double bed and all the space he has. I really wish I could post a picture of the contortionist I open the door to every morning.  He doesn't use pillows, he sleeps on his arms, all diaganol, twisty like on the bed.......

The Truth Comes Out.......

Of the many events they had planned for the 200 plus exchange students during the weekend, our guy positioned himself as a sort of a leader of his group and even commandeered the TV to watch some of the Phillies game.....in BUFFALO...see, genetically, identical.  He tells me of standing directly under a part of the falls getting soaked to the bone, going shopping at the mall, and oh, yeah, getting picked up by the Buffalo Cops on Friday night for loitering.  At this point I am plugging my eyeballs back into their sockets.   It was the boy, this Sarah and a Hungarian.  They were supposed to be at the dance, instead they were walking around beautiful downtown Buffalo for 4 hours doing things teenagers do, or at least I did, AND getting escorted back to the dance by the fuzz.  Saturday night he thought it would be a great idea whilst everyone was sleeping to sneak out of the house searching for the house of Sarah.  He claims he has a sense of direction.....2 hours later he still had not found the house but managed to get back to his place of sleep.  OH MY........

Returning Back To Normal.....

The seniors at our High School had off today to visit colleges, but have to be done by 2:30 for football practice.....hmmmm..... Did we have a full day off to visit colleges when we were seniors?  I don't quite recall that.  So I get a text a few minutes ago, "Can u explain me how to make those pancake stuff?".  Love this kid!  Of course I will explain to make pancake stuff!  I send him 1-10 directions, each short, to the point.  I then get a call.  I can not find the stuff.  "Its in the cabinet next to the coat closet" I say.  "In with the dog food he says?"  "No, in cabinet next to coat closet with dog food".  "Shouldn't it say Aunt Jamama?"  "No,  I answer, "we are using Bisquick this week, and it's Aunt Jemima, long i.  He then tells me that he can start fires but not to worry, he will get dogs out and he knows how to drive cars so they will all be safe if the house burns down.  Its been about 45 mins, and I just received the text, "Yap, pretty bad, not even yours burned bad, I got complete neighborhood :p, but I saved all the dogs and cats :D  He is a superhero.