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Published August 26, 2009 @ 08:29 by Tania in Amazing Kids

Son One is tired. After weeks of travel, friends, fun, swimming and long car rides, we are trying to get him back into a routine before school starts.

This week he is in Hockey Camp. 4 hours of ice time a day, and he is ready for bed by 6 pm. Last night, however, he had a soccer game out in Vaughan at 7 pm. Seeing his soccer friends won out over admitting that he was actually tires.

He was resting en route, but I wanted to get dinner into him, so I started reading out the options as we passed, "Pizza, Wendy's, Harvey's, Sushi, Pizza..."

"Sushi! I want Sushi!" he yelled. I pulled a U-turn on Highway 7 and went back to the sushi place I had seen.

My kids like sushi, but tame sushi (like avocado maki). I found out when Son One was 13 months old, and I took him to a Japanese Restaurant with a few friends. He loved it, and we have fed it to the kids ever since.

We walked in, and were seated in a booth. It was lovely. We both opened our menus, trying to decide what to order.

I leaned across the table and whispered to my son, "There are no prices on these menus. That is not a good sign."

"Maybe they are in Chinese" he answered. Sure enough, after the English description, there were some foreign characters. Hmpf! Unless you speak the language, you don't get to know what stuff costs? That doesn't seem fair!

We ordered a few items, and the server left us with a menu to keep reading.

At the bottom, I noticed, "Sunday - Thursday - $17.99 Friday - Saturday - $19.99 - Holidays - $19.99"

Then I closed the menu and read on the front, "All You Can Eat Menu"

Yes, now it is clear as a bell. And all in English. I can't believe that I have just brought my 7-year-old to an all-you-can-eat sushi restaurant. What am I thinking?

How was I going to get Son One, who likes Avocado Maki and Plain Rice to eat $17.99 worth? I started ordering a little more...

We added two orders of shrimp tempura. Turns out the Son One likes tempura.
I had two Diet Cokes - pop was included!
We both had ice cream for dessert - vanilla for him, green tea for me.

I felt better about our dinner, but still felt like it was expensive. However, we were in a rush so even if we could have eaten a little more, we were out of time.

I went to pay while Son One went to pee. The total came to $37, tip included! Wow - kids weren't full price. I was thrilled - we definitely ate $37 worth.

Only one problem - today I am meeting a friend for lunch, and I told her how much I was craving sushi. I am a little sushi-ed out. I think I may have to go for some chicken teriyaki instead.