Bocadillo and Panera

 Thursday after working at the office all day, the Howards and we went out to eat at Bocadillo's a Venezuelan restaurant.  It was my first time eating Venezuelan food and we all really enjoyed it. We started out with Pequenos.  One dish of these tasty goodies were filled with cheese and the other with chocolate.  Look how much chocolate is in there.

 The restaurant itself is pretty upscale, but a funny thing about it is that connected to it is a Greek restaurant.  When you walk in the door you can go either right for Venezuelan food or left for Greek food.  Some other time we will have to try the Greek.

 Our main course was Arepas. The bun is made out of corn meal mush which is fried.  My filling was shredded pork with black beans, avocado, and cheese.  Papa's had a fried plantain instead of the avocado.  We both liked ours.  After eating we came to our apartment and had a good game of hand and foot.  The "boys" won again.  Now we are 3 (boys) to 2(girls).  Sister Howard and I are planning our revenge.  Ha!

Yesterday we took the day off from the office and went down to Plattsburg, New York so that I could go o the dentist.  My tooth has been bothering me for about 3 weeks now, so I decided I better go in.  We woke up early to go and when I looked out the window, it was snowing again.  It's time for it to stop snowing.  Anyway we left and the snow didn't last too long.  Pretty soon it turned to rain and then even the rain stopped.  The rest of the day was cold with a very cold wind.  Well, when we got to the dental office, I went in and had x-rays taken.  They told me I would need to get a root canal.  However, when the dentist started checking me teeth, he said he would need to look further.  He checked my teeth and did all kinds of tests on my teeth.  He said my gums looked terrific.  My teeth all looked good. They were all alive except for my root canal tooth and he couldn't really find anything wrong.  All of the teeth reacted the same to an electrical impulse and they all had the number 2.  Finally, after quite a while, he told me that I had a tooth that has been traumatized.  "Was I under any stress?" he asked.  Oh yes, is the answer.  I have lots of stress.  He ended up just filing a little tiny bit on one tooth and now we will wait and see what happens.  I was happy that he was so honest and didn't just do a root canal when one wasn't needed.  Now I will try to relax a bit more and not stress so much.

After the dentist we went and did some shopping and finally had lunch at Panera.  The lunch was delicious.  I had a most tasty Chinese Chicken Salad.  John had a turkey, apple, cheese panini and a pastry. We both liked our lunch.  I especially liked the salad.  Yummy!