and a delightful dinner date too

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In case I have not mentioned it, I consider myself one very blessed guy.  A Prime example is yesterday when I had two wonderful dates. 

As detailed in the previous post, Lydia and I had a lunch date.  Then later Julianna and I went for a dinner date -- yesterday evening.  She dressed formally – over a sweater jacket as it is getting cold here -- and her Mom loaned me their car (change of subject – but that is one for the ages isn’t it?) and I drove down to the commercial area of this part of town.  

 We walked along the street where vendors where setting up their offerings for the evening – from clothing, to food stuffs, household items, and of course CDs, to most anything you would need—think street fair minus the balloon twisting guy  -I should add that such a location provides much to discuss in such a stroll and we did discuss much, -- and with a small world moment on our stroll Julianna was greeted by a classmate of Lydia’s, though I should add we were very near the school, so perhaps it was not a small world moment after all.

 We chose a restaurant that offered outside seating – as do nearly all the restaurants in this part of town.  These outside seating arangements are no minor undertakings with tents, lighting, and such.  Julianna took this picture of me.

 And of course I took this one.  We went for gidan chowfan – egg fried rice – and it was quite good too.  Once again, the ordering and finding the restaurant was up to me.  Soon enough the kids will be doing the taking out but for now….  And  I can say ZaiNar - (where?) - good enough to find a restaurant that has what we were looking for.

 And our after dinner entertainment included cake and juice from a nearby by bakery and a little play time on one of the corner pieces of art – (really it is quite something in this part of town – the corner art)  

At first I was using the above photo as a locational - atmosphere photo, but after looking at Julianna's pose -- well it is just to precious for a Granddad not to share -

 Yes it really is a computer and Julianna using her feet typed her name.  That is the "mouse" in the foreground, though the computer has a track pad.  and oh such a grand evening.  

Little truth in advertising here -- on both "dates" I spoke a bit of Chinese - ordering, finding which restaurant served what and so on.  During the course of my various Chinese conversations (that word is loosely used here)   at some time or another I had occasion to ask Lydia and Julianna what the Chinese person said to me.  I of course got a translation and that was fine -- and both girls at one time or another said "She (the Chinese person) said "she can not understand you"  -- and knowing that makes things much more clear to me as I frequently could not understand them either.