Fire and Food

Last week we went on a dinner outing to a Japanese Steakhouse called Wasabi. Wasabi is a Benihana type restaurant where the chef prepares your meal at the table. Unfortunately, the Flip Camera's batteries died before the meal prep began, so all I have is footage of us entering the restaurant and walking to the table. Fortunately, I also had the other camera with me. (Yes, I travel like paparazzi acting on a Lady Gaga wearing a meat dress tip on these outings.)

Here we are sitting at our table waiting for the chef.

The chef arrives.

The chef disappears in a pillar of fire. DeMille would have been proud.

The chef reappears to prepare our meal.

The ever-popular Onion Volcano.

Steak, salmon and chicken were our entrees of choice. We had a great time and a wonderful meal.

Bicycles and Chickens

We're getting in shape for bikini season. Spring is here, so summer can't be far behind, right? Some of you may have seen that red bicycle (large tricycle, really) sitting by the Ivy Room door. That bike was acquired because of someone's dream several years ago. (If you don't know about our Dream program...well, I guess that's a blog for another time.)

We decided to get the bike out again, pump up the tires and let people scare the staff and other residents by riding around in the hallways. (Nobody was really scared - it was all very well staffed and controlled.)There were several riders and I caught two of them on video.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2oSwrz_xuk

Also - this is sort of two blogs in one - I wanted to share some video with you of one of our residents reading to some children. In case you didn't know, Menorah Park has a day care center for employees' children. We get visits from them twice a month. Usually we sing together. Lately, a couple of residents expressed an interest in reading to children. A match was made!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8zjhoRbF0E