With Mark off for a few days and Ro at school, we're enjoying a sort of empty-nest syndrome. Get up late, eat a leisurely breakfast, walk downtown, run a few errands, etc... We've finally mailed off the last of our wedding thank-you notes. Thank you to everyone who was there, in body or spirit!
The Kwangchow Chinese restaurant down the block always looks packed in the evenings, so we figured we'd give it a try for lunch. Their smorgasbord (i.e. buffet) was a little small by US standards, and the food was just okay. Sherry's given up eating lamb since our visit to the Agrodome, as she can no longer put out of her mind where lamb comes from. Mark, on the other hand, harbors no such guilty conscience, and enjoyed the lamb with Satay sauce immensely. Too bad for Sherry that was the best dish they had. Most of the other dishes were overcooked or oversauced. The desserts were pretty good, if you like half a dozen different ways to prepare meringue. At least they had real chopsticks; they had jasmine tea, too, but you had to brew it yourself with the selection of teabags on the buffet.
When we picked Ro up from school, he spent probably a good half-hour playing in the schoolyard with his "mates" after the bell rang. We were all tired and spent the rest of the day at the apartment, chilling on the deck, eating popsicles in the warm afternoon sun, watching Ro blow bubbles and doodle on his writing pad. He's getting quite good at drawing letters...and monsters. Sherry made a delicious dinner - the best lamb (for Mark) she's made yet. She says she took it out of the oven when it still looked nauseatingly bloody to her; the result was a perfect medium-rare. Even Ro scarfed down his "five bites" (one for each year he is old) of steak and his "candy potato" (kumara with brown sugar on it), although he constantly turns around in his chair to peer over the balcony, and has to be reminded to face the table. Not sure what's so fascinating about the sidewalk, but he seems to love it. For those of you who haven't figured it out, lamb and beef are super-cheap here, and very high quality. Imported things like orange juice, though, are crazy expensive. After putting Ro to bed, Sherry stayed up late to watch the season premier of Flight of the Conchords with Mark.
For the uninitiated: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flight_of_the_Conchords
Ro playing in the schoolyard
Ro with classmate Henry giving chase
Ro and his "mates" playing with a giant rubber band
I enjoyed this so much...I must get up from here, and tidy up this place, but I sure do look forward to reading all the previous Chapters in this captivating Journal.Reality, non fiction are right up my alley! Thanks for being sweet enough to share w/your family and friends!
ReplyDeletep.s.Yayyy! I am Family :)