Day 15 – A Day in Ithaca

Sharon and Terry took the girls to Ithaca to see the Commons (downtown shopping area), the gorges (Ithaca is gorges, get it?) Cornell University (25,000 students) and their previous house. The girls also ate at a very nice Thai restaurant and Su had the best som tom that she has had in the USA.



Mark Ruffalo was there acting all "L.A." by talking on his cell phone.


They did a lot of walking and returned from that day trip very tired. I asked them if they wanted to go for a walk and they were too tired to consider that. I rephrased the question, and asked them if they wanted to walk over to our neighbors house to see his wet garden with a pool and Koi fish (big goldfish), and when Gigg heard our neighbor had a young, single son, she was the first one out of the door, leading the way to the “fish”.

Su has never really cooked very much … in fact … not at all. She tried cooking once on a camping trip in Thailand with some friends and she did make herself a little stir fry here one night … but tonight …she cut up all of the veggies we had, used all of our Asian sauces (Oyster, Soy and Fish), added shrimp and called upon some vague recollections she had of her mother in Surin cooking something like this, to add a few other ingredients, and she prepared a very nice meal for all 7 people this evening (and nobody died). Actually, it was a very good meal and Su can now officially call herself a “cook”.