Hope and Video Kitchen

We met one of Jerry's former Spalding University students today at Cafe Mimosa. It was a treat for Hope since she'd never eaten there before. My seaweed salad, sushi, hot tea... yum, yum. T, the owner and friend of ours, wasn't there since he'd taken Emily (who is now ELEVEN years old!) and their 3 year old son to run errands. Vivian, his wife, sat and visited with us for a while. She'd just come back from spending about a month visiting with family in Vietnam. We've known her for about 12 or 13 years but haven't seen her for 3 or 4 years now. I couldn't believe how much better she speaks English. When we first met her, she spoke just a very few English words but would just smile and nod when we'd try to communicate with her. She's still a beautiful woman.

Years ago we had a small, 8mm video camera which we took on a European trip in 1990 when Amanda was 16 and Rob was 13. It broke so we sold it in a yard sale years ago. Therefore, we've had a stack of tapes and no way to watch them. When Rob was home last time, we found them tucked away in the back of the closet; we thought they were lost or had gotten pitched when we moved. We pulled out three that he wanted to see first to have converted to DVD. I took just one of them to Video Kitchen; they will have it done tomorrow. I'm so excited to see it since the events on it are from 1993-94!