2 Weeks in Hong Kong

Just in case anyone was wondering, we are eating well. What you see below is Old Settlers Baked beans with rice, a salad, and mixed fresh fruit (watermelon, blueberries, bananas, and walnuts).

Our family actually sitting down to a meal together. We get to do this most nights.

 On Wednesday we visited The Hong Kong Science Museum with friends.

Ike, Andrew, and Kaylin experimenting with electricity.

This is an old traditional Chinese boat.

Lindsey is electrifying.

Andrew is having fun taking a simulated driving test. It's scary that he could be driving in 5 more years.

Kaylin is in a telecommunication booth that connects to the room beside it. She and her friend Ivy had great fun seeing and talking to each other.

This was a more realistic driving simulator. Andrew flipped his car. Lindsey did okay. She only has about 3 1/2 more years til she will get to drive.

Lindsey dressed as an arctic explorer.

This is up on Victoria Peak on Hong Kong Island. We posed with a wax manikin of Pierce Brosman.

A slightly blury view of the view back over Hong Kong mainland from the Peak.

The view from the ferry when headed over to HK Island.

This is the Peak building. A very unique shape.

More awesome views from the Peak.

Dinner with some of the friends who went with us to the Peak.

It has been a good week, as you can see. Please pray for Andrew who is not feeling well since Friday mid-day. He is running a low fever. I'm sure he will be fine in a day or so. We appreciate your prayers. We also discussed today the purpose of fasting and prayer. We skipped lunch to prayer and read some Old and New Testiment scriptures. We are trying to stay connected with our church family and what they are doing, which is discussing the Book of Ezra, and fasting and prayer. We love and miss our TCF family. We haven't forgotten you all.

A Busy Sunday Hike to a remote New Territories, Hong Kong Beach.

Here we are on the MacLehose Trail in the remote countryside of Hong Kong.

More beautiful views.

A remote beach along the trail.

Fun in the water.

The day warmed up nicely into the low 70s.

Baring the feet. Can you tell whose feet are whose?

We stopped for lunch at this small restaurant that serves any tourist they can. There is a small group of native Chinese who live at this remote sea shore village that make a livelyhood off the tourist who decide to make this beautiful but challenging trek.

This was the largest fish I have ever seen. It's width is longer than my arm and its length was at least 7ft. It opened its mouth and lunged at me when I peeked around the corner of the tank at it. If I startled it; it startled me much more.

This was yet another large fish in the same tank.

This was one of the traditional Chinese fishing boats we saw at the outdoor fish market that we walked through.

This was our dinner on Sunday evening. Look familiar? We got a Hawaiian pizza. Yum.

These are some of Mark's coworkers who came along on the hike. We learned 1-10 and Good Morning in Cantonese today on our way to the start of the hiking trail.

More 1st week pics

We found Kowloon Park to be a great place to just hang around and get some energy out.

Monkey bar fun.

We met some new friends at the park. Ivy, Audrey, and Ike from Shinjin, China. They are only here in Hong Kong one more month before they go to Nigeria, Africa for a while with their dad's job.

See Saw fun.

We walked the Hong Kong Avenue of Stars; similar to what we have in Hollywood. Picturesque (sp?) Hong Kong Island in the backhground.

We enjoyed a fieldtrip to the Space Museum.

Andrew checking out one of the space exhibits.

I'm not sure what it is about foreigners wanted to take pictures with our kids, but that is what is going on in this picture.

This was a fun slivered mirror exhibit that was outside of the Space Musuem.

One week in Asia

We have been in Hong Kong one week now. We have survived one week of work, home, school, and navigating our way around this busy yet beautiful city to find parks, museums, grocery stores, restaurants, church, and more.   

 This is the lovely view we have the privlege of seeing every night.

This is a look at some of the Hong Kong dollars that we use. When we purchase a box of cereal for $48 Hong Kong dollars, we are actually spending about $6 US dollars.

Navigating the snack aisle. Do you see anything that looks familiar? It's a lot more pricey here.

This is what we see on the cereal aisle. I did see a woman use what I think was a coupon. I did sign up for a store rewards card. I thought my TCF couponing buddies would like this.

Church at Kowloon International Baptist Church (KIBC)

We got up and found our way on the MTR (train) to KIBC where we enjoyed a packed praise and worship service very similar to ours. The people were friendly (not as much as TCF though, miss you all). The Sunday School classes were full and meaningful as well. They have just kicked off an intense NT reading program. Listen 28 minutes a day to CD or online in your respective language and have it done in 40 days. A lot of people were eager to get their CD's. It was good to see the focus on feeding the flock, encouraging spiritual growth and witnessing, and outreach. We ended up going out for lunch with several families from the SS class. Over all it was a great opportunity to find a productive growing church and make some connections for friendship. Praise the Lord!

Unique sites

They have double-decker buses in Hong Kong.

Very detailed artwork made out of an elephant tusk (In the window of a street shop).

Hanging out in Hong Kong

A Chinese pond display near the harbour.

The kids by an old maritime canon (It was fired to alert ships to the time of day). Boom, time for lunch.

After lots of walking, we enjoyed lunch at Thai Orchids restaurant with some of Mark's work associates.

On Monday afternoon the kids and I enjoyed an outing to Kowloon Park where we found a free Chinese history and archeology exhibit inside.

Kaylin standing in a artifact exhibit room. The floor was glass panels that showed lots of broken pottery pieces. It was a little odd feeling to walk on it. It seemed like it would give way even though it was sturdy.