Restaurant Shabbat

In an effort to expand our social circle, we met a family from synagogue -- whose son, Drew, is also in Rachel's class at McKinley -- for dinner at Silver Diner. Drew has an older sister, Jody, in fifth grade, and managed to get through most of dinner without the kids getting too raucous (except at the end, when we were getting ready to leave and Rachel, Drew and Jody decided to "stalk" each other).

As we were waiting for my Drew to get his car 10 minutes away (Shana and Mark, the parents, had given Rachel and me a ride over) Mark kindly played tag with Rachel, Drew and Jody. I have never seen Rachel more worn out or happy after running around. She had a fabulous time, and hopefully we can all get together again sometime.

That night I had weird chest pains that prevented me from putting Rachel to sleep. It hurt mostly when I lay down. They seem to have gone, so hopefully that's a good sign.