Food and Family


Dec 21

It’s always a good day when you pass the rough electrical inspection on your home construction project…in Vancouver WA. We got word today and it made us happy. Next will be the rough plumbing inspection next week…we hope. Wayne, our point person for the project and his wife, Dana, were able to move back into the house now that they have power.

This morning we walked before breakfast and it was a wee bit cooler than doing it after breakfast. Ideally, we would walk earlier but I am hesitant to set the alarm. Living without an alarm clock is my idea of freedom now that we are fully retired. I went to sleep at 3:00 a.m. and woke up at 7:30, not my idea of a full night’s rest. After lunch, we both took a nap. It helped a heap.

Each visit here Ron and I take the family out for a dinner. A couple of times we have gone to a nearby fish farm and have a great fish meal that is as fresh as it comes. This year the family picked a restaurant in a mall that we frequent for the big grocery store. This choice was made as two family members who live in old town require wheelchairs. There were 14 of us present for the event and there were four generations from 2 ½   years old to 90 years old. 
Timm and Tum's Daughter Pair and her friend MIng

Timm
Pon, Pair Brother
Lin and her Granddaughter Kah Pun
Hope, Lin's Grand son

Pon and mother Timm
Tui, Timm's sister
 
Tum, Timm's husband
Timm, Hope and Tum's Mother

Tum's mother on right and her care taker
Tui and Timm




The restaurant has tables for cooking. In the center is a hot plate with a large pot of boiling stock. You order plates of food you wish to cook such as a variety of meats and veggies. In addition, they make great roasted duck and green noodles, shrimp wonton, etc. It was a feast and fun with so many present. Ron always treats and this major feast came to a total of $100. for 14 diners. What can I say about that? Nothing!




We came home while Timm, Tui, Pair, Ming, and Hope who is 12 went to see a Thai comedy film upstairs at the multiplex. We got to bed at midnight. Pair and her friend Ming spent the night in Pair’s room which is the guest bedroom. We are so glad Pair and Tui have started staying at the house when they are in town. Both live in Bangkok but often come here on holidays and weekends. Pair, less so, because she is now enrolled in an MBA Management program on the weekends. How she works fulltime and goes to school on the weekends is admirable but it has to be a grind doing both. She said she is now on break until Jan 4th.




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