The More, the Merrier!

Julie and I successfully hosted six, count ‘em, SIX guests in our new house this weekend - friends from Chi-town.  We had a merry time discussing deep philosophical issues, playing Croquet (which I believe is the next Kickball or Bocce), grilling, eating MSU Dairy Store ice cream, and touring The D.  One from our group of friends works with a guy from Iraq whose family moved to Dearborn, home of the largest concentration of Arabs in North America.  After seeing downtown Detroit (didn’t take long) we headed to Arab central.  An iPhone and my yesterday’s-tech cell phone guided us to Arab Kabob.  I felt a bit out of place being in a group of the only white people in the cozy diner where all of the signs were written in Arabic and an Arabic soccer channel played on the TV.  Our choices on the menu were chicken or “meat” kabob, tekka, and chicken hearts or livers.  I went with the “meat tekka” and enjoyed it thoroughly.  In Arabic, their word for “meat” is the same for “beef” so what I had was cubed beef served with salad, rice, pickled turnips, and plenty of bread.   I also realized that I’ve only bought one album printed in 2007.  I’m falling way behind!  Time to start exploring artists again, now that I have plenty of solitary downtime with Julie at class in the evenings :(