Days 230-231: Slow Weekend, Ending in Some Duck

Saturday not much happened. Finished my reading. We had pork chops, leftover cabbage, and potatoes for dinner. Couple things, though: we booked our trip for going home. We are officially returning to the USA on July 5. Also, Kristen asked about the possibility of staying one extra month in our house--for more money, of course. We are still considering it at this point.

Sunday I did more grading--Short Novel response papers--and Kerry called Delta about their pet regulations. "Try to get off the phone in 15 minutes," I told him. Unfortunately, it became a 90-minute phone call: the first woman he talked to didn't seem to know much; she was reading off a website and constantly put him on hold. We found on that they don't allow cats on Delta Premium Select, which is the type of flight we booked. So the first woman booked us an economy flight instead. Then she switched us to another woman who seemed to know a bit more; she suggested that we could do a Delta Comfort flight and still bring the new cat. I was fine with this, but we couldn't get seats on a Delta Comfort flight for July 5, so we had to switch to July 6.  And now we have our layover in Seattle, not Detroit. But...at least we can bring the cat, and at least I have my window seat, and at least we have reasonably comfortable seats. So it worked out. I also managed to download the Shanghai Disney app today; we plan to go to Shanghai Disneyland on Thursday, May 3 (it's supposed to be nice weather). Originally, we had planned to go May 10, but it's supposed to rain all next week. So we booked tickets for May 3.  I hope I'm not too exhausted from my long teaching day on May 2 to go.

Kerry and I had a "date night" in the evening. We went to Magnolia Plaza (777 Hongqiao Road) and ate at Beijing Dexin Roast Duck: we got duck, scrambled eggs with shrimp, rice, and broccoli. They also gave us salt and pepper duck as well as duck broth, too. Very, very tasty! Afterwards, we bought some pastries at a French pastry shop in the mall and then had ice cream and drinks at McDonald's.  I had bubble tea: quite good! It was a nice evening and made for the 90-minute phone conversation.  I hate dealing with long customer service calls. Kerry has much more patience with this than I do.

Did a bit more grading in the evening. Tomorrow we're going to see a temple or two with Peter and Harry.

From Magnolia Plaza:

Scrambled eggs with shrimp at Beijing Dexin Roast Duck!

The crispy duck, Beijing Dexin Roast Duck!

Random subway girl with a cat on her jacket.