School daze

Today was Audrey's first full day of kindergarten (she had a soft-start last Friday). Dada was all prepared to drive her to school, but she insisted on taking the bus. It helped that the bus stop is only a block away, and that her friend and neighbor Olivia, who's a second-grader, also rides the bus and could show her the ropes.

She had a busy day at school, doing lots of activities and getting familiar with the new routines. She gets to sit near her friend Charlie from preschool. She went to music class, and discovered that she can buy chocolate milk in the cafeteria at lunchtime (she has a meal-card account loaded with a few dollars). She ate most of her lunch she brought from home, but couldn't finish her cookie before it was time to go out on the playground for recess. She was tired when she arrived home on the bus at the end of the day.