We are old.

What a weird week this has been - we've gone to the second favorite family restaurant closing.

Had a very bittersweet dinner on Wednesday with the family. One of our favorite Chinese restaurants, Charlie Mom, was closing the next day. We have been eating there, unbelievably, on and off for the entire time that they have been open - 33 years.

City Crab & Seafood Restaurant is closing tomorrow after 22 years. (Once again, we're so old that I remember when the space was Cafe Iguana.) We have had many, many happy family meals there (even well before the girls were around.)

Both of the girls had their first (virgin) drinks, sitting at a bar at this restaurant. Both of them ate their first lobsters there. I've spent many hours waiting outside the bathroom for either of them. (When they were very young, I had to bring them into the men's room to use the bathroom and had to explain what a urinal was.) I was once bought a drink by a waiter who recognized me at the dad who waits outside the rest room for his daughters.