Today we celebrated Lila’s birthday, 17 year Intel anniversary, and 1 year since leaving the US. Highlights included Lila taking the day off, lunch wih her friend Mae-Ling, going to the gym. Lila also worked a few hours at a Pacific Coffee -- her favorite brand during Hong Kong days that has only 2 branches in Shanghai - 1 only open on weekdays). For dinner, we went to Lila’s favorite sushi restaurant (Haiku) – continuing our “celebrating over sushi” tradition.
Karl also just completed his first bike race by China’s Yellow Mountain about 6 hours from Shanghai. He went for 3 days with a group of friends from Shanghai. The race went well. Karl’s especially proud that he didn’t finish last and didn’t fall off the bike during the race (something 8 of 9 of his friends couldn’t say). Lila was proud that Karl was able to do the race without training. The next day, before returning to Shanghai, Karl took the cable car up to the top of the Yellow Mountain only to find he was fogged in. Luckily the race didn’t kill him, so he was still able to hike up and down the mountain in the fog. We look forward to going back together to actually see the beautiful mountain top that is in almost every Chinese watercolor painting!
While Karl was at Yellow Mountain, Lila spent the weekend in Shanghai. She spent time at the gym, wandering the city,and getting the apartment organized with some new furniture that had arrived as part of our lease extension. She also enjoyed 1 girls’ night out with her friend Wendy. After a spa visit, they went for Mexican food at our favorite restaurant (Maya), then had drinks out on a bar’s balcony during an unusually warm March weekend. Two great 3-day weekends in a row!
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