Hong Kong

 Dear Family, This was a very busy week! Lots and lots of work-- I've been very busy working on a couple of projects in India --  and then a change. Mike and Jill arrived here on Wednesday afternoon and of course we were thrilled to see them and spend a couple of days with them. Unfortunately, I had to continue to work on Thursday and Friday so Mom played tour guide without me. But I was able to at least eat dinner with them every night and then we spent all day Saturday and Sunday together. So good to be together again! So, I will walk you through some pictures and our time together: We are headed into Mid-Autumn festival, kind of the Chinese equivalent of our Thanksgiving (as Mom explained last week). So the lanterns are out again! AJ and Kels will recognize this street. Mom is taking Jill and Mike to get a taste of our favorite egg tarts. I was able to break away from work for a couple of hours on Thursday and head up to the "Peak" for a view of the city. This is us in...

Dear Family, It's an interesting thing to sit down once a week and make an accounting for what you've done during the past seven days. I always start off fretting that I won't have anything to write about because it has seemed like just a normal, uneventful week, but by the time I look at a few pictures and add it all up I realize that there is more than enough to pass on. Maybe even more than you care to hear about, so I'll skip telling you all about being able to participate in the remarkable program that is done by all FSY participants all over the world. We got to do it for our Monthly FHE with the seniors, and although I was skeptical, and went into it with a very unclear picture of what the purpose was, very quickly was pulled into its universal truths.  It's enough to say that I'm thrilled all my older grandchildren will be able to also be participants!  Program script. I won't tell you what a remarkable powerful 34 minute program it is, you'll ju...

Dear Family, We are exhausted!! This place is crazy. Less than one week after the biggest typhoon in years hits Hong Kong, we experienced the biggest rain storm to hit HK in over 100 years. Twenty-four inches of rain in just over 12 twelve hours. Over 20 landslides, two deaths, one airplane sliding off the runway and billions of dollars of damage. I grabbed a few pictures off the internet to give you an idea of this event. There was major flooding everywhere, streets turned into rivers, the lower floors of shopping malls underwater, rivers of water in the subways and going down escalators. If you want to see more, just go on the internet -- hundreds of pictures and videos. So it all started here with this group. These are some of the kids we play ping pong with every Tuesday and Thursday night. After playing Thursday night, one of them suggested we all go out for some dessert at a place about 15 minutes from where we live. And even though it was my bed time we decided to go. Here we ar...