It's been a mostly quiet couple of days. We had a hard freeze the other day, and the next day I went out back and noticed that a bucket that had been full of water was now iced over. I thought that I could pull a disc of ice off the top of the bucket, but no ... the sides of the bucket were cold too. Instead I pulled out what looked like a perfect large vase of ice. You can see it in the pictures. Inside it there were all of these fascinating structures of crystals. Not many survived pouring out the water, but some did - that's the second picture.
Pui and I and my father went out to lunch at a place called the Crab Pot. Pui saw an ad for their steamed seafood, and wanted some. We went to the library first (The Bellevue Public Library is very nice) and then to the Crab Pot on Lake Bellevue.
If you've never seen Lake Bellevue, think of a very large puddle (about 100 meters across) and imagine a bunch of buildings built on the water, on pilings, all around it. Now put a couple of fountains in the center, and you have Lake Bellevue. Anyway, we went to the restaurant, and Pui wanted to get a dish called "The Cove" - steamed mussels, shrimp, clams, corn, potatoes, and sausage served in a pile on butcher paper in the center of the table - but it has a minimum of 2 people ordering it. I finally agreed to be person number 2, and the waiter brought us our bibs (!) and tools of destruction. There was a crab cracker, a pulling fork, and a small mallet. 
When I saw the mallet, I decided I liked this dish - any meal that gives you a small hammer to eat it with is a good meal in my book! The food arrived in a great big pile - as advertised - and Pui and I dug in. Darn if we didn't eat everything but one piece of corn and a couple of the half-potatoes! I was full for hours. Great fun.Tomorrow we are going back to Children's Hospital, for a check-up with the Pediatric Cardiologist and to tour the facilities at Children's. Me, I'm hoping for some more 3D images of our little boy. :)
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