Father told of his neighbor, when he lived out in the bush, who built himself an airplane so he could fly his son to school. Ella said she'd never seen snow and that Hershey chocolate had just appeared in Australia. Sally suggested that they would probably go somewhere for a vacation during the Olympics. We sat before two plates piled with Vietnamese spring rolls. They were followed by vegetarian lasagna.
Australian beef is wonderful.
She got the ricotta in town. There's an Italian cheese shop where they now have a Chinese man making the ricotta. They say he's the best Italian cook in Sydney. For dessert we had baklava. In the morning, I opened my window to a rehearsal in a schoolyard.