On July 13th, after a class field trip to the ArtZone, Lura's friends Ivy, Gracie, and Dylan (and most of their parents) joined our family for dinner at Rocky Cola Cafe, a '50s style diner that's another of our favorite restaurants. Even a big booth gets kind of tight with that many people, but especially when four of them are wiggly toddlers!
Three days later, we met Grandma's brother Keiji and his family, and their brother Mikio, for lunch in Japantown. After that some of us went across the street to the Japanese American National Museum; this was Mark's first visit there.
Mark has definitely gained a better acquaintance with Japanese (and Hawaiian!) food since he met Cheryl, and Lura likes these cuisines too. Especially the noodles! She's even learning how to eat with chopsticks, or "hashi" in Japanese (or in Hawaii!). Mostly she still uses them as one big stick, but occasionally she'll get a lucky grab with both, so she keeps practicing.
Something (we don't remember what) is clearly more perplexing here than using chopsticks...
Lura's hair has now grown out to the point that Cheryl often draws it into a pair of ponytails. Lura loves them, especially when she shakes her head and they wiggle!
Here's our now-traditional three generations photo, taken on the evening of July 26th just before Mom went home.
On July 30th, Mark celebrated a major religious holiday of the Cult of Mac: the grand opening of the Apple Store in the Manhattan Village Mall a couple of miles from our house. Mark expected to go alone to shoot some photos and post a report for other interested Mac folk, but his very tolerant wife decided to get up early on a Saturday morning to go with him. Lura, in the backpack carrier that our friends Karl, Debbie, and Anna had given us when she was born, was the youngest person we saw in the line! Mark figures we're starting her off right. (Cheryl's holding a pair of T-shirts that they gave us, as two of the first 1000 visitors; regrettably, they didn't have one in Lura's size.)
Of course, even if she turns out to be a Windows user, the day wasn't a total bust for her: after lunch at the Islands restaurant next to the new Apple Store, we went shopping! Here Lura thinks the pink shoe is too big for her, but she's wearing a pair of foot-size scales just to make sure. So Mark got to window-shop for new Macs, and Lura for new shoes; Cheryl took us both home happy.
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