Hang TIme: Day 2

The temperature did not get above freezing today and the day was dusted all day by a very light and fine snow. Anakah was over early, her dad dropped her off on his way to work. I had already made coffee and was on way to the shower when Gabe began beating on the front door. But the house was warm and toasty so I foisted Anakah off on Dian one and finished my morning process. Anakah scrambled eggs and helped Dianne fini9sh breakfast as I got dressed enough to be decent.

Today would have been a perfect day to stay warm and bundled in the house and watch the snow fall and cover everything. But that was not to be. Dianne had to go all the way downtown to drop off some paper work to the Medicare people which caused us to bundle up, dig out the van and head downtown. But new went, Dianne even drove the Interstate which totally surprised me—like many unpleasant plants like going in government offices on dismally cold days we chose to reward our selves by taking ourselves out to eat at one of our favorite joints the Shang Hi: Chinese and Thai cuisine.

We stopped at a little Asian market on the way to the restaurant. Dianne and I love this place. Very little English is spoken here which means the places is shopped by real Asians. This place has the freshest and largest shrimp I have seen in this city. The prices are great and everything to eat exotic from the fish to dried mushrooms of every kind and there one can get anykind of cooking utensils imaginable for Asian cooking. We got the shrimp and vegetables we needed for my egg foo young which I guess we well cook tomorrow.

We have been going to the Shang Hi all o our married life, the Shang Hi is the first restaurant which was ALL ours, one we found on our own. The Shang Hi is a weird place, as I guess all good places are. It seems they have had the same staff in place the entire time. There is one hostess who seems to have love hate relation with us. Some times she is all smiles and giggles to see us and at other times she is deadpan and cold as a fish in the freezer. Today she was the fish in the freeserer. Today she sat us all the way to the back of the restaurant, outer darkness—but regardless of Ms cold fish we had a great time: egg rolls, green tea and great dishes and good memories.