Yesterday Beth and I took the kids to Binder Park Zoo in Michigan with Beth's friend Sheri and her husband Russ and their kids. It was a hot day and rainy through most of the drive up, so by the time we got there it was muggy as all get out. The kids liked it but everyone was so uncomfortably hot, especially when the clouds all dissipated and it got stifling. So, we left the zoo and headed for the mall. I picked up the new Harry Potter book. Earlier in the week I attended the Zimmer hip and knee forum in Chicago, where I got to see 8 live surgeries (everyone wants to know if I dropped a Junior Mint in anyone....No. I was in a conference room watching a live video feed) which were pretty gross at first but I got used to it. Except for the revision surgeries, which were horrible. Lots of sawing and hacking, and stuff I never want to have to go through. Dinner Monday night was at Rosebud's, which was excellent. I went with a guy from India and one from China who knows where the best Chinese restaurant in Chicago's Chinatown is, so on the way home Tuesday night we ate there (Lao Sze Chuan). Some of the stuff was really good and some was kind of weird. There was this jellied green bean dish that I thought was onions when I saw it because all the green was gone, and it was the texture of gummi worms. That was not so good. The five powder beef was excellent, as was the spicy chicken (they had a batch of peppers that were not as spicy as usual, which was good for me but Kai thought it wasn't spicy at all). The spicy tofu and the eggplant dish were both good too.