Goin' Cruisin'

.....Last night Rho and I and two friends went to China Gardens where we intended to indulge ourselves with lobsters. The fact that a Chinese restaurant serves lobsters seems to me kind of strange, but so what. We like lobsters and at that restaurant you can get a one and a quarter pound or a two pound lobster prepared steamed and done perfectly with little or no water on your plate. However, when we got there we encountered and overflow of other lobster lovers, and even though we had reservations all the tables were full and all the chairs outside of the restaurant were full, and many people standing inside and outside. The girl at the counter said our wait would be 15 minutes, but looking around I said in no way would we get a table in 15 minutes--perhaps an hour. We decided to go to a different Chinese restaurant that always serves good food and when we got there we discovered that they also offered pound and a quarter lobsters--a dollar cheaper than the one we left. We were seated immediately because the place was devoid of customers. There were only four people in the booth across from us, and when they left we were the only ones in the room. We all ordered lobsters and when they came, I believed that they weighed only about a pound. We all ate them anyway, and enjoyed the camaraderie.

.....For the next 10 days we are certainly going to eat well because we are leaving on a cruise tomorrow--so there will be nothing to read on this blog until I get back on December 24th. Christmas Eve. I'll hang my stocking on the terrace with care, hopeful that Santa will fill it with goodies--cell phones...or at least dark chocolates. When I was a kid I always believed in Santa and I was convinced that he was Jewish. I still think so, and if you doubt it--then prove that he is not. Now, before he leaves tomorrow morning, the Baron wishes all his readers a Happy Hannakah and a Merry Christmas.