Day 4 began with a trip to one of the many urgent care centers in central Florida (is this a central Florida thing? we don’t have nearly the same amount of them in Chicago). Stitches out by a doctor with shaking hands (and a VERY brave daughter), and then off to Disney Boardwalk for another mediocre park lunch of pulled pork sandwiches and cheeseburgers.

Day 4 ended with a trip to Celebration, Florida to see how the Disneyites live. They live with fake snow (bubbles) every hour until December 31, apparently.

Above average sushi with incredibly slow service for dinner.

Day 3 lunch: mediocre Irish pub in Downtown Disney where Pedro left his credit card. Guess what we’re doing tomorrow!
Day 3 dinner: Cityfish for good oyster po boy and seafood pasta and clam chowder. OK conch chowder and seafood nachos.
Day spent at Downtown Disney riding merry-go-rounds and trains.
Evening at one of the many outlet malls in Orlando.

Downtown Disney was very cold.
Universal CityWalk was very small.

Day 1 lunch/dinner: Pollo Tropical
Day 2 brunch: Chan’s dimsum
Day 2 dinner: Tabla Indian restaurant
Margaritas @ Margaritaville’s take-out window

International Drive is apparently the Street of Crap, says Pedro.

1. I just did the first of two loads of laundry. In it were three pairs of (Pedro’s) sweatpants, three (of Pedro’s) t-shirts, a ton of underwear and socks and (my) tights. We are, apparently, pretty casual these days.
2. I took inventory as I was in the basement laundry room: two 40-lb. bags of dog food, two cases of Shin Ramyun (20 packages each), two cases of instant udon. This is high cuisine!
3. In t-minus six days, we leave for Orlando. Why Orlando? We are not going to Disneyworld, nor are we going for its culinary inspirations (are there any?). We are going because it will be warmer than Chicago. It will, right?
4. Sosie has worn a little Beibei backpack all day. She has to wear her jacket over it. She wore it through her gym class. She has not taken it off. Hopefully it is not full of bricks.
5. A fellow mom told me she got angry at her husband this morning for feeding their toddler son Cinnamon Toast Crunch. I told her it was a good thing I was not married to her because Sosie got 1.5 bowls of ice cream for breakfast.

1. Please don’t yell at your children in front of other people — especially when the other people are your children’s teachers, and you are at a parent-teacher conference, and your child starts to cry, and the teacher is embarrassed. At least stop yelling when the teacher starts to talk about solutions to the problem at hand — otherwise she will think you just want to yell and you don’t want a solution.
2. The former has made me come downstairs for another drink. These days it’s Old Overholt.
3. I am also binging on store-bought seven-layer dip and tortilla chips. This is stress eating and drinking.
4. Sosie loves Dumbo.
5. This is now on the recipe list: Crispy Crepes with Apple, Brie, and Prosciutto.

1. History. Today. Amazing.
2. When Sosie is older, she will not even understand why this was a momentous occasion, and that is fine. It will be a different world.
3. I understand that Obama is not a Christ-like figure, and he will not heal us of leprosy, but geez: a brown person in the White House? With a brown family? With a weird name?Amazing. Amazing. I can’t stop tearing up.
4. We had frozen xiao long bao to celebrate tonight.
5. Juan-Boy woke us up in the middle of the night for kisses and to say that Sosie would also be president someday. It must have been a big night for Juan-Boy to show emotion like that.

1. My life is such now that I can only discuss shows on Noggin. Likes: Lazytown, Wonder Pets, Blue’s Clues, Yo Gabba Gabba, Jack’s Music Show. Dislikes: Wow Wow Wubbzy, Dora.
2. Are people just normally nice and cordial? Don’t they find that boring? I am starting to think that maybe I am too grumpy and sarcastic for the general public.
3. Likewise: Is it weird that Sosie prefers to interact with dogs over her peers? Are we raising a weird kid?
4. Braised short ribs needs to be on the menu soon.
5. And some Tom Kha Gai soup.