Playing Tourist Part 2... The Big Buddha

Please forgive us, we went a little picture crazy...

We started our adventure taking a taxi to the ferry terminal, riding the ferry boat for about 40 minutes, and then riding a bus up very windy roads for about 40 minutes. After sitting beside a very fragrant dried fish someone brought on the bus and several people getting motion sickness very loudly beside us, we decided it was worth the extra money to take the cable cars home! We all enjoyed some yummy Chinese pastries for breakfast on the boat.



The Big Buddha is really pretty impressive once you make it up the roughly two hundred and forty stairs. The view on a clear day is beautiful. Kay loved playing on the stairs and feeling the wind in her hair. She could not stop pointing at all the things she saw.











We rode home on the cable cars and Kay loved it. You could see for miles. The cable car ride takes about 35 minutes. It is a nice peaceful ride.

Planes, Trains, Automobiles...Boats, Cable Cars, Subway, Trolly Car...

I think we have taken a ride on all of them in the past few weeks! Here are some pictures we captured of Kay patiently waiting for the MTR.

Playing Tourist...The Bird and Flower Market

As we adjust to our new home we have decided to play tourist at every opportunity we get. It was a beautiful weekend so we spent the day Saturday at the bird and flower market. Kay loved seeing the birds and beautiful flowers. We walked in one store and I immediately told Craig "I smell Christmas!" Sure enough, they had real Christmas trees! I guess you can get just about anything here in Hong Kong. We probably will not be getting one this year. I cannot figure out how people get them home and then where they put them once they are there...

I have not figured out the bird market yet. It seems to be all men and I think they are just pet birds. The quantity of birds blew me away! Another one of those questions I have added to my ongoing list of questions...

Happy Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving this year was a little different. It was pretty much any other day. Craig went to work and I took Kay to her school. The only difference was we had a nice dinner together afterwards! I kept telling Kay all day we were going to have a special dinner and she was going to need to dress up for daddy. I even convinced her to put in "Polly hair" as she calls it AND leave it in for the entire night. She was so proud to be dressed up for daddy. It was very sweet...

I searched high and low to find somewhere that would serve turkey to us and our two year old for Thanksgiving. I found a lot of places that would have turkey "to-go" or that were too fancy to allow a two year old. Our serviced apartment did not lend itself to having a Thanksgiving dinner at home so out to dinner we went! I must admit, it was kind of nice. We did not spend all day cooking and all night doing dishes! They did have stuffing, mashed potatoes, green beans and fried turkey. They were all good, but not prepared how we would do it at home. We enjoyed every minute of our new Thanksgiving atmosphere together as a family. That being said, it was not the same and we did miss all of our family and friends back home!

New Things..

Kay has continued to be adventurous (sometimes more than her mom!) She really enjoyed her first taste of squid. She kept asking for more and more from Craig. Wish I could say the same!


Kay has been getting better at walking. We have found if we stop and take a break, she will eventually walk again and we can put off carrying her. This makes for a very slow going trip, but at least she is building up her endurance. Here is a picture of Kay and her daddy taking a break on the sidewalk...



Everywhere we go Kay finds something to inspect and look at. We found this great wall that was tiled in sparkles! We had to stop and check it out for about 10 minutes....

A Day with Baby...

Everyone wears their babies here because of the incredible number of stairs everywhere. Kay always points and says "baby in backpack". Conveniently, I packed my old baby backpack from the attic and Kay has LOVED wearing it. Last week, she carried it all day. She even wore it all the way to see Craig's office (about an hour commute). People loved to stop and watch her hug her doll and carry it very carefully. The doll even had to sit in a chair beside us for lunch!