We spent yesterday afternoon with our friend Pearl. First stop, the eyeglass store where Lee and our friend Nancy had their vision checked and Lee picked out new frames. The people at the store spent a lot of time with us. We left school at 3:30 and didn't finish at the shop until 6:00! In a week or two Lee will have a second pair of glasses, ones that will be his reading/computer glasses, at about half the price of his current ones.

This is Lee in his Borg-style glasses. The optometrist added and took away little slices of lens until he got the right prescription. Then Lee walked around and looked at things close and far away to check that he could see well.

Our second stop yesterday was a new-to-us dim sum restaurant. Pearl had eaten there many times but it had just undergone renovations and she was a bit displeased with the new decor but the food did not disappoint. It's the first time we've had dim sum since we got here and Pearl is such a great person to introduce us to it. She, of course, knows what everything is and could make suggestions of which baskets and plates to choose when the carts came rolling by.

I could've tried one of everything but we settled on dumplings, shumai, steamed cabbage, sauteed greens, smoked pork, more dumplings. There wasn't anything I tried that I didn't like, but I think my favorite was the scallops wrapped in shredded sweet potato. Or maybe the steamed scallions in rice wontons. Or maybe the tapioca and yarrow soup. Or maybe I didn't have a favorite since it was all good.