Miami Beach Sushi Orgy

So, Lucy and Edie and I spent the day in the hotel pool, which was warm, like bath water and the girls played in the tanning cabanas and jumped into the 3 foot roof top pool with nothing but their nudey little bodies and there was laughing and some cajoling so that I would take them far out into the deep end, which was like all of 4 feet, and Edie slept in the shade while Lucy and I splashed each other and I pretended I was a friendly shark and then a terrible shark, until the screaming of little girls, mine and other people's, was too much for our ears to bear, and I became a friendly shark again, much to everyone's relief.

That was my day in a nutshell. Pretty freakin' fantastic, huh?

Poor David was stuck in the theatre working. He was stressed. I was a shark. With a tan. There you go. Life isn't fair.

So, it's not always easy feeding all of us when we travel. There are always situations we can't predict or plan for, like that first meal after we get to a destination or before we do the first proper grocery shop or if we are laid over unexpectedly, so sometimes it's a challenge to get everyone eating the way I want them to.

I'm not the type to carry a neatly wrapped wad of organic, grass-fed bison in my brassiere for that "just in case" moment when the children cry out in hunger, nor can I butter poach a lobster with nothing but a hot pot and a bag of M&M's from the mini-bar.

So, I want to share with you the sushi orgy that occurred on our first night here. I particularly loved this dinner because we were all ferociously hungry and we gourged ourselves. There is a sushi restaurant and "Sakatini Bar", whatever the hell that is, in our hotel and so we stumbled down there before unpacking and settling. And we went a little nuts.

What I think is important about this meal, that you will see in the pictures (below), is that Lucy really went to town on her sushi and maki. This is important because although she has played at eating sushi - she's tried it, ate a little here and there, rolled it around her mouth, but never really made a meal of it - this time something clicked and she really indulged lavishly on her sushi. And mine.

This means that the old food wisdom about kids is indeed true - sometimes you have to put food in front of kids time after time - while they turn up their noses or spit it out onto the table or shout "That's disgusting!" at the top of their lungs - before they come to accept it and eventually love it.

This meal reminded me that it's all worth it. See for yourself...

xxoo YM


PS: Notice that my children started out the meal clothed. And ended up topless before we got to the entrees. That's my girls...

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