My mind has been elsewhere lately, so much so that I didn’t even realize Mid-Autumn Festival had snuck up on me. This weekend was the celebration of Fall, when families get together and eat mooncakes. This used to be a major holiday in China, but official holidays were restructured last year and now Mid-Autumn Festival lasts only a few days instead of the week-long affairs of years past.
We celebrated with a company dinner one night and a dinner the next night with one of the DH’s former students who is now a first officer with China Eastern Airlines. And, of course, with mooncakes.
Mooncakes from Hong Kong with tiny pieces of gold leaf on top
DH and I with his former student and his new wife at a seafood restaurant on Qingdao’s beer street
