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| A Happy Slurping |
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| Outdoor/Indoor Bar And Restaurant |
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| Ramen With 24 Hour Dipping Sauce |
It's the same time up as yesterday, just another day later. It's overcast, maybe some rain later and both Rami and I are up, sipping coffee, watching the football highlights from yesterday's games on ESPN. Mitchell has to go back to college today, alas, a three hour drive to The University Of Texas in Austin. He does not seem too upset.
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| Mitchell And His Granny |
We had a leisurely but fun morning yesterday, starting with early coffee for Rami and me. Then, the girls got up, and they got to work making chocolate chip cookies, as Marisa wanted to bake something sweet. While they baked, I took Cody for a short walk and Rami made egg and sausage burritos for the two of us as no one else was hungry. The boys did not get up until 11:30 of course and Tyler, who not only loves to eat but also to bake, got out all the makings for Dutch Baby, which he shared with all of us. It was great, by the way.
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| Tyler's Dutch Baby |
We then spent a good part of yesterday watching football, from 12:00 to almost 2:30 when the Buckeyes pulled it out. It was an intense, nail biting game in where Ohio eked out a win in double overtime.
After the game, the girls took off for Target, Rami and me for REI and both boys went up to the gym to workout. The girls picked up some clothes as many items were on sale and Rami brought home three different sets up lights to try out but none really seemed to grab the family so he will be taking them back sometime this week. We sat around the rest of the afternoon with some wine and good cheese, before we grabbed the always reluctant kids and took some more family pictures until it was time to go out to dinner again, Mitch's choice, Wabi House, as it's his last night before heading back to school
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| A Grown Up Marisa |
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| With Marisa, Tyler, And Mitch |
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| The Family |
After pictures, we jumped into the station wagon and wound our way to Greenville, a section just a mile from downtown Dallas filled with great restaurants and shops.
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| Our Destination |
We had reservations at Wabi House, luckily, and sat down, quickly ordering appetizers, drinks, then ramen. The appetizers were interesting, breaded and fried shitake mushrooms with bone marrow, scallops, fried chicken thigh pieces with a spicy dipping sauce, and the best, finely grated beets with fried brussel sprouts in a peanut sauce. Amazingly tasty. Our ramen was the highlight, however, and I ordered the rich stock, which simmers for 24 hours and is served separate from the noodles. Others ordered a more mild stock and the noodles were in it. The ramen comes with pork belly, pickled eggs, scallions, and you could order other toppings like bok choy or shitake mushrooms. The place was lively and crowded, with steam rising from the huge pots for cooking the ramen.
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| Beth And Marisa Enjoying Ramen |
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| Beth And Rami |
After dinner, we walked around Greenville, browsing in Good Records at Tyler's request. He spent a good half hour browsing, ended up buying a Charles Mingus album while the rest of us walked around town, stopped and bought a specialty of the area, boutique popsicles at Steel City Pops. Most of us ordered banana pudding popsicles, a good way to end a ramen dinner.
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| Good Records |
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| Racks of Records |
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| Mitch, Relaxed |
When we got home, we were all exhausted from a day of football, shopping and more shopping and eating out, so we did little other than kick back, and wait until 10:00 when the adults could go to bed, Mitch out with friends, Tyler to a video game, Marisa to her iPad, the modern family.
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| The Many Faces of Tyler |
Finally, Mitchell is pledging Phi Delta Theta, my fraternity by the way at Ohio University, and he made these Greek letters, signifying Phil Delta Theta, as part of being a pledge. Cool Beans.
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| Signage by Mitch |
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