Our Weekend

Saturday is date day at our house. I look so forward to Saturday every week. It's the one and only time that my husband and I have any time to ourselves. We have a maid/nanny three days a week, and on Saturday she stays with our son from 9AM to 5PM. Living abroad, not having any friends or family to watch our son every now and again was very, very frustrating until she started babysitting every Saturday. This weekend, we did our usual, lunch and movie. We ate at a wonderful Chinese restaurant that specializes in dim sum. We usually get just dim sum, but were both wanting to try something new. We both got noodles. I ordered "Tan Tan Noodles". I have eaten Japanese style tan tan noodles before, and enjoyed them very much, but these were the authentic Chinese ones, and that was some of the spiciest stuff I've ever eaten!! It was a strange kind of spicy. Not so much a chili spice, but a thick, thick taste of pure pepper. It was way too much. I managed to choke down about half, but I couldn't eat another bite beyond that.

Whew! It was spicy! I don't know what it is about me, but whenever I want to be adventurous and try something new, I almost always tend to choose very, very poorly.

Let's see ... after lunch we went to the movie theater and watched Contagion. It was great. I really liked it, but I'm not sure that a hypochondriac, such as myself, should watch it. It really didn't freak me out too bad, but it does sort of make you think. Why is that all of those devastating pandemics originate in Asia? Eeks.

That night, we ordered in Chinese food. Bangkok has a fantastic delivery service. You can choose from probably 50 restaurants on a website, and go through all the ordering system online, and it'll come within about 40 minutes. It's pretty awesome, especially for foreigners who have trouble calling and talking to the people. Anyways, we ate rice, Chinese spinach, noodles, and sweet and sour pork. Tomoyuki LOVES sweet and sour pork. Lately, though, eating with him has just been a total disaster. He is far more interested in squishing his food between his fingers than eating it. By the end of the meal, his high chair, the floor, and himself are a complete mess.

Just desperately trying to get that pesky bib off!

He was smiling at his Daddy in this picture.

Like I said, dinner time is just a total disaster lately. It's certainly hard to look forward to, knowing that I will have a messy baby and a messy floor to clean up.

Well, that's all for now. See ya again soon & have a great week!