"Yum! Please may I have more jellyfish?"

Now that's not a question you hear very often! Those words requesting more jellyfish during dinner came from no less than our Christa! More on that in a bit.

After Sara and the kids returned from their adventure (and I made it back to the hotel after today's training), we had some tired puppies on hand... Z was adamant he did not have the physical energy to walk out the room, much less a 6 block or so walk. C was loopy enough that she was saying, "Dad, I'm having short term memory." That's Christa's way of saying she was having trouble remembering things, such as sentences she can begin but not finish. B was handling the jetlag thing reasonably well--the only one to not have taken some sort of snooze during the day.

The workshop I led today went well. I was likewise pretty fried after being "on" all day. We decided to head out as quickly as possible for dinner before our tired ones were unable to sleepwalk home.

From the extensive menu at Shun Fung we, at Zachary's encouragement, decided to go wild. What's one of the oddest things we could order that wouldn't even remotely be close to something we would order in Chicago?

The answer? For appetizers (they call them "starters" or, surprisingly "entrees") it was Shark Fin and Crab soup as well as Jellyfish and Chilled Pork.

Everyone tried each of the dishes. Z needs a new nickname of Shark Fin because this kid tore into the soup and kept diving in for more. C was more into the jellyfish dish, showing much excitement as she scooped her portion in and began asking for more. B did a good job of trying it all, showing greater preference for the Sweet & Sour pork than the spicy and crunchy jellyfish or the kind of slimy shark fin soup.

Everyone was asleep within minutes of putting them down, a sign of a great day of fun and learning... Or perhaps it's a side effect of mixing shark with jellyfish!