On Monday (the 7th), Mer and I got to catch up with Clarice. Clarice’s fiance, Matt, was on a business trip to China and Korea, so we wanted to help Clarice pass the time until Matt got back. We headed back to Clarice’s old stomping grounds, to the Hibachi Grill in Cuyahoga Falls,

I like Japanese grills – the food is good, and although I do not like everything (like shrimp), the show the chefs put on is always impressive. They have great artistry in preparing the food with flourish, and I like to watch them work. The only downside is that the table arrangement is set so you can see the chef work at your table, which makes conversation with your sitting-side-by-side companions more difficult. As such, after an excellent dinner, we all went to Handel’s for ice cream for dessert.

Handel’s is an outdoor ice cream place, which is happily open all year. But, it can still be cold, especially after the sun has gone down, so we got our ice cream and sat in the car. Clarice is a huge movie-nut, and even studied movie history and film making in college, so we had a long and very insightful conversation about films. She did warn us off of Japanese horror films as being just bizarre, and she did not enjoy Italian cinema too much, but she did like a fair amount of Hitchcock. It was another fine evening, and I hope it helped Clarice some while waiting for Matt to return.