Mid-Autumn Festival and Typhoons

Dear all my familial readers whom I've grossly neglected in the recent weeks. I found out today that you can actually put AdSense on your blog and make money from it--now a completely new incentive to keep track of what I'm doing in China. I might start posting some stuff I read in the news here too, so keep watching.. I know you love to read about politics and the economy.

This weekend in the Chinese Mid-Autumn festival or 中秋节 (zhong1 qiu1 jie2). It's a holiday that comes from China's agricultural roots. All I really know about it is they eat moon cakes, which despite their waxy funky candalistic outside features possess quite delicious soft insides with many different flavors...including beef! Even Starbucks over here sells a highly overpriced version that comes in four or five different colors. Green Cake? Seriously, Starbucks.


The weather in Hangzhou is typically really nice, but Lola told me Typhoon Sinlaku just hit Taiwan and is bouncing around China's southeastern coast. Bet you'd never guess it's raining... :)