The Chopsticks Wrangler
I told Eli 22.1 a story years ago (when he was probably version 10.0) about the time I went fishing for striped bass, and every time someone hooked up, they'd yell "Fish on!" That phrase makes an appearance every two or three years now, which is very on-brand for us, because almost everything we say is connected to something we've said before.
We stayed at a monastery for two nights in Minobu, which is a very small area not far away from Mount Fuji. It was beautiful, of course. Here's the view from our room:
In our time in Japan, everything--even the smallest thing--was beautifully presented. This was our dinner:
And this was the view at dinner:
I practiced with chopsticks before we left, and I was self-sufficient, but I struggled with some of he larger foods. I was trying to wrangle a big piece of something, and Eli was getting more and more amused (so was I), until finally he looked at me and said "Fish on!"
Then, of course, I couldn't use chopsticks at all, because I couldn't stop laughing.
Here's a picture of us (I know, I never put up pictures of myself, but this is an exception):
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