Phil’s blog

About a month ago I went back to VA to visit for two awesome weeks. During my stay I went out to eat at least 17 times, seriously, which inspired me to start reviewing restaurants on Yelp. Here’s my Yelp profile which includes all my reviews. The highlight of the trip was renting a cottage with Justine outside of Charlottesville for a few days. We went back to some of our favorite places including The Korean House, Tea Bazaar, Splendora, the Creperie, Cafe Europa, and various stores on the downtown mall. A few of our friends are still in school (mostly in the wushu and lion dance clubs), so we got to hang out with them and join them for a wushu team practice, which brought back all kinds of great memories. The weather was perfect so we also took a hike on part of the AT and watched the sun set from one of the overlooks. Other highlights of the trip included hanging out with the family; preparing a feast of pumpkin bisque, steak salad, and Thai curry; watching Transformers (finally!); baking some incredible chocolate chip cookies; celebrating Syl’s 22nd birthday; and watching the season premiere of The Office. Two weeks felt way too short, but in another two months I’ll be home again for Christmas

Almost forgot to mention that on the flight back to Beijing, the video screen in my section didn’t work so I got 50k frequent flyer miles! United rocks.