Fun at the arcade!

Karen's birthday celebrations!

We spent a couple of days celebrating Karen's 27th birthday.  We started on Friday afternoon with an all girls luncheon while the men were at work.  We ended on Saturday night with a trip to Papa Johns, Karen's favorite!

The car accident!

I never knew a car accident could cause so much damage after the fact!

We were truly very lucky that we did not get hit in any other spot as the other guy was going about 40 kph and we were only going about 10 kph.  (Jacky was already a cautious driver before this even happened!).  Ellen was buckled in, so was safe no matter what!  Car seats are not required by law here, but we require Ellen be in one and buckled up!  Now, here we are three weeks later and are on our second temporary driver because Jacky is having a hard time dealing with this accident and the fender bender he was in on his own.   I knew Jacky was upset at the scene of the accident as he was talking to me in Chinese.  I had to remind him that I could not speak Chinese, I took Ellen's stroller out of the trunk and we walked back to the apartment.

What would you do for 100RMB?

How much money is that you ask?  Not enough to eat the eyes of the fish like Carson did!  While at dinner his sister Stephanie bet him that if he ate the eyes she would give him the money.  Apparently this was the second time this week he did it!  (100RMB = $15.00). So not worth it!  Other than watching Carson eat fish eyes, our dinner at this Thai restaurant was amazing.  Probably one of my favorites thus far!

Renovation time!

The apartment below us has been being renovated for several months.  We have had to live through constant banging, pounding and sawing on a daily basis.  Who would have known we would have been so lucky to get a free laundry room renovation along with it!  Apparently there is a leak and our laundry room is the only place they felt they could fix it from.   Or is it?  After two weeks of working and letting the new pipe settle and cement dry, they realized they have not fixed the leak.  I have been fortunate and have been able to use my washing machine up until this point.  Now, I get to be without one as they need to completely tear up the entire laundry room.  I have asked that they wait until after Casey's parents leave as I do not want them to have to deal with this mess.  They have agreed, but in the mean time I have a giant hole in my laundry room floor!  

I really hope this solves the problem.  If not, I am sure they will just keep tearing things up and make a bigger mess!  

Peak Tram ride with amazing views!

If you want to see a beautiful view of Hong Kong, this was the way to do it!  By buying the tickets for the Big Bus Tour, we got to get in line right away for the tram.  In China, most people have no respect for others when it comes to getting what they want.  They will cut you off, push you out of the way and even get into a verbal altercation if needed.  As a matter of fact, we witnessed all three of these things while in line for the tram.  It made us giggle because they section you off into groups to get onto the tram.  So everyone in our section was going to get on  the same tram.  Maybe you weren't first in line, but we were all getting on together.  Thank goodness the views made up for the crazy ride to the top!  Besides from great views, there was great stores and restaurants.  I even spent over 200 HK dollars on candy!  And I enjoyed every bit of it!  Nerds, gobstoppers, laffy taffy....oh how I have missed you!

Big Bus Tour

This reminded me of New York City, so we decided to do it.  (Aimee, do you remember when we did this in New York?  I mean, it was only a few years ago....right?). It was actually a beautiful day and a great way to get around Hong Kong.  Included in the tour was a peak tram ride, a ferry ride across the river to Kowloon and a fishing charter boat ride.  We did everything except the fishing boat!