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- Mindy and Anna — Lantau Island
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- Tai O, Lantau Island — “Venice of the East” — notice the stilt houses built over the water!
My apologies for taking so long to update this — these past two weeks have flown by! And I’ve spent my little computer time on planning the adventures for our days off (particularly how to get from point A to point B via public transportation!). We’ve really packed our days off full — those of you who know me well are not surprised by this. Mindy and I were off together last Wednesday and we visited the Temple of Ten Thousand Buddhas, where I had gone with Anna the previous week. From there, we hiked down to Wing Wo Bee Farm, which was really cool. The guy gave us samples and showed us the bees and everything (he didn’t speak English, so it was a lot of pointing!) Seriously…it was the best honey I’ve ever tasted. From there, we visited the Hong Kong Heritage Museum (free admission on Wednesdays!) and saw some amazing artifacts dating from BC times. And we re-visited the monkeys, since Mindy hadn’t seen them yet and I’m always willing to visit the monkeys. And who knew that monkeys like to dive into rivers from trees and swim? Yep, they do. We were all off together on Friday, and then again this past Monday. Amazing how 2 days a week off add up! So Friday we went to Lantau. Among other things, we rode the cable car, saw the biggest outdoor bronze Buddha in the world (random, I know), visited Tai O fishing village, rode a little boat out to see pink dolphins, walked around Pui O and saw the feral water buffalo, and did a hard-core hike up Nam Shan Old Village path. Monday we hiked again — the Dragon’sBack trail from Big Wave Bay to Shek O on Hong Kong Island. The views looked like they came from a travel magazine (Tai O was like National Geographic). We spent some time on Shek O and had a wonderful Thai lunch, then checked out Stanley Market. It’s famous as a tourist market, so the prices were significantly greater than the other markets, but it was cool to check it out. We also went to the nightly light show in Tsim Sha Tsui and walked along the Avenue of the Stars. I’ll have to update you on life here at Holf next time!
July 22, 2009 at 5:32 am |
Wow! What an awesome experience to get to visit all those places and really experience the culture! You’re living your dream, Joanna!
August 2, 2009 at 1:18 am |
What an exciting tiem you are having. You really know how to do adventuring. It has taken us all this time to find your blog and we have missed all the other entries. That’s sad. We know you are excited about God’s great, wonderful world and your place in it. We’d love to know how you are feeling about the daily routines. You are in our prayers.
August 9, 2009 at 11:01 am |
Thanks for the prayers and encouragement!
Don’t be too disapointed that you’ve missed the other entries — they’re all still on the blog, and if you look around on the site, you should be able to read all of them if you have the time and desire to do so!
The routine isn’t as difficult in my unit as it is in the others because our children are more mobile, though the morning routine has several details that should be done in the right order (and it seems like it took me forever to get it down correctly — I kept making mistakes like making the bed after showering Hephzibah instead of before or forgetting to open the window; I think I made one or two mistakes a day until I ran out of mistakes to make, haha). And it drove me crazy because I HATE making mistakes, even little ones. But eventually I got it all down!