Co-Worker Friend from Arizona, From Afar, Christian Thoughts

Hiroko has a wonderful time with Sue and Deborah who used to work together at Baker & McKenzie in Chicago Office. Sue moved to Arizona after her retirement. Young Deborah is still working so Sue and Hiroko met her at the restaurant closer to her working place in the downtown Chicago.

In order to go to the downtown Chicago, Hiroko has to take the electric train run by CTA.

This is the red-line train station nearby Hiroko’s home. Can you see train?
The right side photo was taken in the train.

Here comes restaurant

This is the front of the restaurant, called “Elephant and Castle” serve the British cuisine.
“Please come this way,” said by a concierge.

The outdoor tables are available for this restaurant.
The small British police man statue is standing.
 
These dishes were ordered for the day’s lunch.

Shepherd Pie, and Fish’N Chips

Chicken Salad

About Shepherd Pie From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cottage pie with minced beef

Cottage pie refers to a British or Irish meat pie made with beef mince and with a crust made from mashed potato. A variation on this dish is known as shepherd's pie.
The term cottage pie is known to have been in use in 1791, when the potato was being introduced as an edible crop affordable for the poor (cf. "cottage" meaning a modest dwelling for rural workers).
In early cookery books, the dish was a means of using leftover roasted meat of any kind, and the pie dish was lined with mashed potato as well as having a mashed potato crust on top.
The term "shepherd's pie" did not appear until the 1870s, and since then it has been used synonymously with "cottage pie", regardless of whether the principal ingredient was beef or mutton. There is now a popular tendency for "shepherd's pie" to be used when the meat is mutton or lamb, with the suggested origin being that shepherds are concerned with sheep and not cattle. This may, however, be an example of folk etymology.
If you want to read the further information please go to their site: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_pie.
There are similar dishes made by many different countries.

This is Sue.

Isn’t it beautiful white hair? It is her own hair she said. However, she is too young to have the white hair, so many are asking her how to dye the hair.

Hiroko regret sooooo much! She forgot to save Deborah’s photo. These photo were taken by her cel, so she had to save the photo each time after shot. Oh, well! Sorry Deborah!

Dessert time

It is called :Big Ben” make with a big piece of brownie ice cream and lots of whip cream. It is so big and rich that ordering one case and shared it with three of them.
They exchanged their recent news about each other. All of them are surely getting old physically but their spirits are still young. It was very wonderful time spent together. It was hard to say “Good Bye.”

Here is Hiroko’s coming home train station. The train runs through underground in the downtown Chicago.

The train had just left when Hiroko reached the platform. No white lines are showing where the train stops or where the passenger standing as the Japanese train station.

Here came the train from opposite direction.
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Hiroko has always been so thankful to God for the Baker & McKenzie, where God provided such wonderful co-workers and very kind attorneys, and most of all Hiroko was paid good salaries. B&M allowed Hiroko to work at the Firm past her retirement age, so she can spend comfortable retirement life right now. Of course if Hiroko look around, she would find missing things in her daily life. However, Hiroko would like to trust the Lord’s providence at better time of bad, to live with contentment without complaining. Give thanks to the Lord and B&M for her comfortable retirement life.
On Sunday, July 2, before listening to the Devon Church Pastor’s preaching, Hiroko can shout “A-Men” with big, big voice. The title of the preaching is “God Provide: and the main idea of the preaching is “Since God has provided and continues to provide all we need; we can live joyful, thankful, and holy life.