Dinner This Friday

This Friday my grandfather is taking me out to a sushi restaurant in DC and I cannot wait. This will be the fifth time he has taken me out to eat so far this fall semester and I love these outings. It’s a great break from school, always a fun adventure and of course a great meal. He always finds the greatest places based on what type of food I am in the mood for. For example this time when I said I was in the mood for sushi he actually got in touch with the Japanese embassy in DC and asked them where the best place for sushi was in DC. My Grandfather has all these really strange connections and gets invited to different dinners at a number of different embassies all the time. He told me that a few weeks ago he had dinner at the French embassy and it was an elaborate 8 course meal where you couldn’t even let your wine glass get half empty before someone was there to fill it up again. Yes my grandfather is always involved in something within Washington, he goes to see speakers at the Smithsonian and the National Galleries almost every week. I think its his way to escape from my grandmother who is unfortunately dying and is hurting many people around her physically and emotionally. She barks at my grandfather for most of the day because she refuses any outside help and refuses to move into a nursing home. Yet many of the things she demands my grandfather is too old to complete. I really feel bad for him.