ICHIBAN!

Matt has been out of town this week, and will be returning tonight (hurray!). So today, Luke and I seized our last chance to go out for a Japanese lunch before daddy returns. (Matt draws the association of having Japanese food as going on to Fear Factor - you get the idea...) It was Luke's first taste of Japanese, and guess what?? He LOVED it! We shared an Unaju (broiled eel with rice set) and some Kappa Maki (cucumber & seaweed rolls - well, we will move on to the raw stuff later). On first bite of the cucumber rolls, Luke's eyes lit up and he started giggling. After that was just plain stuffing himself silly with mouthfuls of them. (I should have taken a picture, but I forgot to bring the camera - DARN IT!!!) He had a similar reaction with the Unaju, except that he was more discreet with the stuffing as he was tackling it with a spoon. And there's no escape for the Miso soup, either. His little pie hole double-acted as a suction device, and all the soup and the seaweed and the little cubes of tofu were gone before I managed a second take on his progress...Of course it was a very satisfying lunch, and mother and son were both pleased as punch...

So if Matt never manage to convert his antogonism towards Japanese food, at least now I will have a little company.

Arigato, Luke-chan! :)