Beer + Qingdao = Eternal Happiness

Hopefully, that is! 4 years in China, I am finally going to the Qingdao International Beer Festival in August. The above photo is provided by the (I think) official Website about the festival, located here: http://www.qdbeer.cn/2007/into.php3 I have 2 observations:

1. These guys are still using PHP 3.   Let’s get with it people - PHP 4 already has a End of Life date.
2. The more entertaining observation: The site is all in Chinese.  Yet they have two photos on that page (including the one above) only with foreigners. This is a pretty common sight in China - ads or other media targeted to Chinese but depicting foreigners.  Must be something like: “Hey People!  Look!  The crazy foreigners are doing it!  You can too!!”

Any way, the details: We depart Beijing by train Saturday, August 11, at like 6am.  We then grab a plane in Qingdao bound for Beijing just past midnight on Sunday (technically Monday the 13th).  So, there is an optimal amount of time to drink and still not have to take any time off work. (Hopefully)  My boss already told me “You better make sure your in the office 9am on Monday!”