Painful knee, Sushi making and Dinner with friends

Today the girls and I headed to my friend Sung Soon's house. We had planned to go there for 2:30 but unfortunately I had some pretty bad knee pain from the run this morning and ended up making an appointment to see the doctor. Fortunately for me I have good friends who can take care of my children at a moments notice. I dropped the girls off with Sung Soon and headed to the doctor. The doctor talked to me for a couple minutes and gave me a referral to an orthopedist that I will see on Wednesday. (I will keep you posted.) It was a quick doctor visit and I headed back to Sung Soon's to make sushi.

I had never liked sushi until I had Sung Soon's sushi. Her sushi is excellent! One day I was craving her sushi so much that I bought sushi from the grocery store. This was a bad decision and left me sick all night. I vowed never to have store bought sushi again. I asked Sung Soon if she would teach me how to make sushi so that I could have it whenever I craved it. Today she taught me. She also lent me one of her rice cookers and gave me some of the ingredients so that I could get started by myself at home. It will be interesting to see how well I paid attention to how she cooked some of the ingredients. I hope I can make it as good as Sung Soon or at least good enough to fill my cravings. Anyway, Jason got out of work early and came over and enjoyed the sushi as well. After gorging ourselves on sushi, Sung Soon also made us dinner. She made typical korean food for us that was very good. The meal included things like sesame leaves from Korea that I have never had before. They were quite tastey with the beef she made. We also had seaweed which is different than the seaweed you use for sushi. I had no idea there were different kinds of seaweed. The one we had for dinner was a salted seaweed that we placed rice in and ate. Jason enjoyed the soup but I decided to skip the soup since I couldnt' possibly fit anything else in my stomach! We had a great time and I feel like I learned a lot about Korean cooking and the girls practiced using chop sticks. Her is a picture of Sung Soon teaching Sofia how to hold chopsticks. Ali had beginner chopsticks and was doing great with them. I think I needed the beginner chopsticks as well!