Can you believe that I was only there for seven days? It felt like a lifetime.

I’ve been holding off on a major recap because there’s a secret I’ve been dying to share and I just don’t have the green light yet. It’s just going to have to wait a little longer. (Trust me, this hurts me more than it hurts you!)

So what do you want to know? Help me focus, people! Do you want to hear about the people at ChinesePod? How about the food I ate while I was there? I had a surprisingly good lunch over at the infamous BSR (Bad Service Restaurant) and helped Clay find his “Blue Steel” look.

OH! You know what I can tell you? Steve Williams (one of the CPod founders) and his wife just had a new baby! Congrats to them both!

What’s funny, and not a little strange for me, is that I’m finding words less useful since I started taking photos. There’s this saying about each one of them being worth a thousand words. Might be some truth there. Look at this one, for example:

There’s got to be some lingo-cultural explanation behind this whole “talking girl” thing. Best guess here? Anybody? I don’t know the answer myself, but I found that it tickled me when I saw it. It was just one of a million little moments that made it such a great trip.