Halloween Pub Hop/Crawl

The Halloween Party That Hardly Hopped (Stayed at the Same Place)
It started with this text message from Preeti Chaudhary:

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Hiya all,

Hope all of you are well...Vesper and Patrick say Halloween is a great costume party time in QD from what they experienced last year...What say we all try to dress up a bit and do some pub hopping? All the bars and pubs will be doing specials I am sure...Charlie's gives you free stuff if you are in costume..Cassani,Le bang,New York all are doing something or the other...

Say meet at 7.30PM on Friday Oct.31 at Charlie's on Jianxi Lu and take it from there?
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Shhhhhh: my camera malfuntioned, the date imprint should have been 2008/10/31.

Need I say more? About a dozen expats and local Chinese friends met at the favorite watering hole - Old Jack's bar on Yan Er Do Lu. The usual imbibers including Ron and Ola de Bree, Dr Ian and Preeti Reynolds, Antonio and Eva Barbaro - visitors from Rotterdam, Josephine Ng Shieh (Jack is out of town), Philipppe, Adrian, RJRensen and myself, plus locals Summer and Adelia.

Dr. Ian Reynolds of SSL International, plc., makers of Durex condoms - the "over-population control but enjoy it" company - once said to me, "The production of Durex condoms is barely enough for the China market". Of course, I said, "With the Chinese drinking so much Tsingtao beer, what do you expect?"

Joen Bruan of Wisconsin Farewell Party

Here are photos from Joe Bruan's farewell (to Qingdao) party on 26 October (Sunday). He returned to Wisconsin. Good Luck, Joe!