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Today we ran a few errands and got caught up on laundry, read some and then Carolyn, Steve and I headed out and went down to the U.S. Embassy to pick up Tom.  We went down to the fabric district to pick up some items we had ordered from the week before, comforters and window treatments. 

From there we went back to the embassy area and went to a lovely restaurant and had some delicious chinese food. Tom calls it the hole in the wall, but it really is gorgeous. I was sooo excited to see they had a Western style bathroom (thank you Lord) and the whole sweet-and-sour fish we ordered was an interesting story.  They bring it out live for you to look at and approve and then they cook it and bring it out to you. We had a lot of different dishes, and some beer - but the fish cost more tha all the rest of the meal combined! The fish there is the specialty, and most of the tables were eating one of the fresh fish dishes. After dinner we looked at some of the pictures of famous people that had been there, including some recent Ambassadors, various Chinese and Hong-Kong movie starts, and even Al Gore. 

On the way home we saw this crazy guy. He’s always riding around the compound with this ladder - but we’re not sure if he ever uses it.

The girls all stayed home with the Ayi and ordered pizza and pasta and had it delivered in! Tomorrow we will be touring one of the world’s oldest astonomy obervatories, stay tuned for details!  Good Night!  (Not bad for mom’s first 2 entries)!