Hi All,
Tonight was our friend Briana’s last night in the United States before she leaves for China for the Summer (she’ll be back for classes in the Fall).  She and some friends (including Daniel) brought over a couple of bags to store while she is gone.  Briana then invited us to go with them to dinner.  After our last experience in a restaurant with Gabriel (Andy had to take him home after about 5:00 minutes) we have avoided restaurants.  Well, since it was pretty late we hoped that maybe there weren’t very many other diners and decided to risk it.   I’m so glad we went.  We went to a local Chinese food restaurant.  The couple who ran it were super nice and made four plates of fresh dumplings just for us.  They had two little ones there at the restaurant as well.  It was great seeing Gabriel interacting with other Chinese people and obviously he understood exactly what they were saying.  The couple had a little girl who was the same age of Grace.  We are hoping they will get to see each other again.  One of my greatest sorrows is that Gabe will probably lose his Chinese language skills - Grace lost hers quickly after arriving in the U.S.  In any case we had a great time seeing Briana and Daniel and meeting their friends Nancy and Noel (who were from Liberal - small world).

Here are some more photos from the evening: