Last Wednesday was a rare mid-week treat for me and Mer. Ombusdsman was bachin’ it, so he wanted to go out for supper. So, we agreed to “do” Chinese and headed through the Valley to West Akron (actually Montrose) to go to the House of Hunan. Craig had eaten there before and proclaimed it to be quite good, and he was right.

The restaurant was about a third full, and so we got a table right away. We ordered and the food came very quickly (Mer was even still in the bathroom). Craig showed us up be eating with chop sticks in an easy manner. I ordered my Chinese staple, orange chicken (which I’m sure Jo will proclaim as the BEST chicken ever because it is ORANGE!!!). It was quite tasty, and it made Mer happy because it had snow peas and broccoli (she gets an odd satisfaction from seeing me eat vegetables).

We chatted about a bunch of things, including work of course. Since all three of us are at CVCA, it is a natural thing to discourse on. Any extended conversation with Craig tends to be very amusing, so it was a meal well spent – good food and relaxed atmosphere.

As good as Chinese food is, they do not do great (by Riordan standards) desserts, so we skipped dessert at the restaurant and instead made the trip to the Handel’s Ice Cream near our house. Mer and I swapped dessert preferences – she got the Blizzard-like “Hurricane” and I got a hot fudge sundae. Ombudsman got a raspberry-chocolate flavor which he expressed satisfaction over. After we had solved all the world’s problems by chatting in the car over ice cream, we dropped Craig at school so he could get his car, and we headed home. It was a nice way to cheat the week.