The elder set lunches with the younger.
On Monday morning I received an invitation to join a couple of my friends for lunch at the Yuyuan Gardens. I hadn’t been there in ages, and I was hungry, so that settled it. Also, it didn’t hurt that the invitation came on Monday, and it seemed unlikely – to me, at least – that the complex would be crowded with the tourists and locals who throng it on the weekends.
And it was less crowded, though not significantly so. But what surprised me, what I didn’t expect, was the very large population of grandparents wandering the complex with their very young grandchildren. For reasons too lengthy to enumerate here, I’m big on grandparents. So this was nice to see. Anyway, below a photo that I was lucky enough to catch during lunch. Despite her best efforts, the grandmother just couldn’t get the granddaughter to eat. Click for an enlargement.
And a word of lunchtime warning: the streets surrounding the Yu Gardens are torn up for blocks. So if you’re in a hurry, consider lunching somewhere else. The traffic is borderline impassable.
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Please tell me that you didn’t just do a grandparents and grandchildren post.
Comment by J — November 19, 2008 @ 9:05 am
I did, and what’s it to ya? Anyway, it’s my blog, I like that photo, and I’m fresh out of leaked kidnapping material today.
Comment by Adam — November 19, 2008 @ 9:09 am
A few more like that and you can start competing with Anne Geddes on the calendar racks. You wuss.
Comment by J — November 19, 2008 @ 9:15 am
Anne Geddes? Who invokes Anne Geddes in a flame?
Comment by Adam — November 19, 2008 @ 9:20 am
This photo will cost you scrap readers.
Comment by J — November 19, 2008 @ 9:35 am
It will gain me Anne Geddes-type readers. And believe me, there’s more of them.
That’s all the call-and-response you’re getting from me today. I have work to do.
Comment by Adam — November 19, 2008 @ 9:39 am
Is it Cantonese Dim Sum they are having ? Look good.
Comment by Bill — November 19, 2008 @ 10:26 am
I like the grandparent post, even though I see this lived out over a hundred times a day.
Comment by ambrose — November 19, 2008 @ 11:08 am
I think that’s a gorgeous photo. Thank you for posting it.
Comment by Marjorie — November 19, 2008 @ 10:08 pm