saturday night, december 10th, my parents and i met caran, joe, ben, and my mom's sister maureen and her family for dinner at an italian restaurant. i realized that it was probably the first time i ate italian food since uncle joe was in korea. we had to wait over an hour to get a table, and even then the service wasn't great, something else i noticed since it was almost always good in korea. the food, however, was really good.

after dinner we went back to caran and joe's house to basically hang out and pass the baby around.