Yesterday Mina and Joe arrived from Japan via Chicago and New York.
Oh Joy, Hooray!
Some of the children have arrived to stay
for a couple weeks
which is never long enough
to hear all their stories
and to give them enough hugs.
They’ll be with us for two weeks, which will be fantastic, so we decided to celebrate after picking them up at SFO at Mandalay Restaurant , which is near the corner of 4th & California, a Bermese restaurant that we like as much as Burma Superstar, which is usually more crowded and noisy, to be found just a few blocks away near 3rd and
Clement. Just across the street is Mia’s Vietnamese Restaurant, which is also terrific, but we were looking for pumpkin chicken and should have ordered more at Mandalay because it’s so, so good. Just writing about it now makes me hungry.
And then after we ate, we thought about going to Green Apple Books, which is always a treat, but not last night. After mango with sticky rice, Joe and Mina were tired — their New York time was three hours later for them — so we headed home.
