When they arrived at the restaurant, they found the others already sitting at a large table.
Dad had already ordered and the waiter was filling the glasses with champagne.
Erin sat between Lihua and Lily;
Xiang Wu sat opposite her.
Dad told a lot of funny stories about him and Lihua and about how they met at work ten years ago.
"I will never understand how she was interested in an old man like me!" he joked.
Lihua was around thirty-five and dad was in his late fifties; he was actually old enough to be her father!
When Erin thought about the twenty year age gap she felt slightly weirded out.
She thought about her own age gap with Daniel, it was around thirteen years, but she never really felt like he was much older than her. Maybe because he looked really good and was extremely fit.