We took off to Shanghai yesterday to visit our friend Bill, who works there after graduating from the university where we taught last year. It was great to see him again and catch up on life. He showed us around Shanghai and Pudong, and we got to meet his friend Susan. After sightseeing Bill wanted to treat us to a cup of coffee.
At the coffee shop, we drank, we talked, then we left--unfortunately, without Matt's bag. Matt rushed back when he noticed it was gone, but the bag was nowhere to be found. After letting the staff know and counting it as a loss, we had the idea of calling his cell phone, since it was in the bag. To our complete surprise, someone answered! It was the lady at a customer service counter downstairs in the shopping mall. Apparently, someone stole the bag, took it downstairs, rummaged through it and left it near a restroom after deciding he didn't need two elementary-level Chinese textbooks and a cheap cell phone. To say the least, we were shocked and thrilled. The two mall employees who found the bag were at the counter when we came to pick it up and asked us to write a letter of praise for their honesty. We were more than happy to do so and hope they get huge raises! 
Not sure what this sign is about... We went to the Bund, and there was definitely no seagull there. :-)
