Nicholas is my 5 year old nephew. He's a very happy child. He's also quite the little chatterbox and I should mention that he's got a voice that carries. I am not exaggerating. He's got a very "loud" voice and that's his normal voice. You don't want to hear him when he's shouting. You can go deaf in one ear. Literally. When Sandi and Nicholas stayed with us in Connecticut two years ago, he would often run to the door and greet Tony when he would come home from work and say: "Hi Uncle Anthony....How was your day?" Tony would respond: "My day was fine." Nicholas would then ask, "Aren't you going to ask me how my day was?" You would often hear Tony telling him "Nicholas- volume...volume...you need to lower the volume of your voice." Matthew and I arrived in Florida this morning and were greeted by Nicholas and Jeff at the airport. He was chatting from the time we saw him at the airport until we arrived home. That was quite a ride. We settled in and Sandi and I decided to run some errands and pick up some things for our trip to Disney. It was during our trip out when my sister called me an "immigrant". Yes, you read that right. She called me an immigrant. Let me draw out the scene for you. We were in Target picking up snacks for the car ride to Disney. I was staring at all the snacks and was amazed at the choices. She starts to laugh and said "You're like an immigrant. You can spend hours here because you're overwhelmed by the choices available." True. In China, there aren't that many choices for the American taste. I can find the occassional Doritos, Cheetos but it's pretty limited. The Chinese snacks consist of a lot of seaweed and other funky flavored items. Not quite designed for the American palate.
Sandi knows how much I've been missing the seafood so we went to the Rustic Inn this evening for dinner. It's a place in Fort Lauderdale famous for it's garlic crab. We had the crab sampler and immediately put the kids to work for us. Matthew and Nicholas were busy bashing the crab while we were busy digging out the meat to eat. It was very messy but very good. We probably consumed more butter in that one sitting than we do in a lifetime, but then again, I can't get this stuff in China so.....I am enjoying every little bit of it!
