Emily's Escapades

We ate at a seafood restaurant in Zhuhai on Monday night during the Asia-Pacific regional meeting.

Cracking oysters

You can pick your dinner right out of the tank.

When the whole chicken is served, they always serve the head here too. We always try to get the new guys to eat it. (no one has yet.) Jon Settingsgard isn’t new – he’s just showing off. (and he didn’t really eat it.)

This girl served us beer all night. Judd learned how to say “I love you” to her in Chinese. He just remembered “Kyle Eide”, which is pronounced “Kyle I – D”. This rhymes with “wo ai ni” (sounds like Whoa I Knee.) So he could say “Wo ai ni” if he just thought of Kyle Eide.

Since Jon is the sales manager for China, he is often on the road with Linlin and on the phone with Judd and Aileen (PMs in the USA). Whenever he gets a phone call after 10 PM, I ask, “Is it your boyfriend or your girlfriend?” If he’s traveling, I’ll ask him if he’s going to have dinner with his girlfriend.

Jon and his girlfriends (Geoffrey wanted a kiss too!)

Jon is always on the phone with Judd – I guess Judd is a good boyfriend. :-) I think Judd’s wife feels the same way. Since we are 14 hours ahead, it is usually late at night for one of us when they are talking. Judd definitely is on the phone more with Jon than I am!

Judd and Aileen are both PMs in Brookings.