Happy New Years!!!

The cooks who run the noodle restaurant at the schools cafeteria that I affectionately call The Noodle Folk Restaurant, invited their student workers and me to dinner on New Years Eve. By the way these two people are some of the nicest people I have met anywhere and they treat their student workers like family.

For some strange reason I thought the restaurant would be a nice little out of the way restaurant with a simple menu, but I guess I forgot I am in China. The restaurant was huge and we had a private room where we had barbecued sheep and tons of vegetables that I don't know the names of; serve in a hot pot that was heated with coal. Then because this is China "Uncle", as the students call him, and I had bei jou (a strong whiskey like drink) while his wife and Noodle Folk co-owner "Auntie" heaped serving after serving on to my plate.

Well two to three hours later I bid everyone good bye and headed off to Finnegan's Wake to meet Dave one of the other teachers at JIETT, listen and sing to some music and usher in the New Year. This seemed like a good idea, since the solar New Year is more of a Western celebration and celebrating it in an Irish pub seemed appropriate.

I don't know what I was thinking. When I go there Dave gave me a Guinness and we kept ordering shots of who knows what; finally washing it all down with champagne. I left at 1:30am way too early for some but way too late for me and today I feel a bit sick.

Happy New Years!

Here are some New Years photos.

By the way I couldn't stop taking Christmas photos. Check out the photos in Christmas in Nanjing slide show and vote for your favorite holiday image, in the comment link.