The Richie Show: 10/10/10

I suppose almost everyone is posting today. I tried to post a movie on One-Day-On-Earth, but you can only post pictures...so I posted a picture. Took a few movies today to try to capture a really cute one.

But, before we talk about that, lets talk about Richie's first Dim Sum! Let's start the story: On September 27th, I received an e-mail from my Aunt-Carole that said the following:

"Hi Marylee, Elliot and Prince Ritchie...I will be in college park late
the 4th thru the following Monday AM... I leave at noon...so maybe you
could come to the airport and visit for an hour. My guess is that
Heidi will bring me to the airport early so she can go to work. Or
maybe we can work something else out. she has bought a house in
College Park so I will be there. Hope all is well. Carole"

We will ignore the incorrect spelling of my name and Richie's, and move on. I knew I was going to be working on the 9th but free on the 10th and she'd still be in town. The e-mails that followed, which included her friend who lives in Maryland, established that it is their tradition to have Sunday Dim Sum when Carole visits. Not to be too large a perturbation, we obliged the tradition. I asked around the department to find a place that would split the distance between us and still be tasty. We found the Red Pearl in Columbia. We corresponded on the location and all agreed to meet at 11:30am.

We left our house just a couple of minutes late, about 11:03am when ML mentions, "Don't forget there's a game today." I started my usual path and ML thought it was going to be too congested. I took an alternate, but it turned out the road was blocked. We finally got on the highway at 11:20am. Anyone who has visited knows that is an inordinate amount of time for me to access the freeway from my house. I asked ML to call Carole because I knew we were going to be late. But, no answer. Then I thought how odd it was that we had not heard from either of them in the days up to this event.

From Carole's visit when GG hurt herself, I knew that Carole phone was frequently plagued by a dead battery, or off, or just not audible. No worries. We arrived about 15 min late and ML went to go look for them. They weren't there, so we called again. By that time we had informed the hostess that we were awaiting two more adults, but they found a table for us anyway. After a couple of attempts at communication I decided we better start eating because I figured they forgot. And, unfortunately, we don't have Carole's friend's phone. (Yes, I'm leaving her name out on purpose. I like her.) We have a nice meal and gather ourselves to get Richie home and to bed for a nap. He was telling us he was sleeping toward the end of things.

I should also mention that we called Papa-Nat at some point to verify we had the correct cell number for Carole.

After getting home and sending an e-mail, Carole replies this evening. She's apparently coming into town November 4th. Yes, Papa-Nat, I know you told me. She is a "Space Cadet."

Richie at his first Dim Sum eating yummy Chinese Broccoli! He also had pock-bun, taro root, and other various dumplings.