Our Family Blog – Mike, Louanne, Nadia, Amelie, & Dani
During the women’s gymnastics on Friday night I ate the last tube of these wonderful Orange Ritz from China. 🙁 We brought 3 packs home with us in March and I have been stringing them out to make them last. But I was getting worried that they would go bad and decided to finish them off while enjoying the Olympics mania going on in our house.
Aunt Michelle has been gone a week, but here are the last of the photos from her visit. We miss you 🙂
Michelle showing Nadia all her makeup tricks.
Relaxing at the house.
I am thankful for these sorts of events that make up my day 🙂
So with round the clock Olympics in our house I have been thinking a lot of China and the stuff that we saw there. We saw a boatload of photos of products with Yao Ming’s face plastered all over them. And this reminded me of when I used to work at a steak house in Dallas when Yao Ming came in with his translator and a couple other basketball people. They were seated in my station because my manager was confident that I wouldn’t act like a goober because a famous person was in my section. She knew I would just do my job.
Anyway, I went up to greet them and he was so tall that even once he was sitting down he was taller than me. I kid you not the guy had to look down a bit to place his order. HA HA!! The best part was when I asked him how he wanted his steak cooked and the translator said, “well done” a split second before he said, “rare.” So I sent it rare and he gave me a big smile and ate the whole thing. I figured he was the one who was going to eat the steak, not the translator.
Who knew that 6 years later we would be in China meeting sweet Nadia and that he would be such a focus of the Olympics?