Getting Out

We visited the fishing village Aberdeen.  When Lynn served his mission here there were lots of Chinese people living on their fishing boats.    They lived on these boats their entire lives.  Back then they were called  "Boat People"  Things have changed now,   not as many people  still live on their boats.  

We took the tram  up to  "Victoria Peak"

We had the perfect day to go to Victoria Peak.  It was beautiful.  Last March we went with Shan and Dave, and Jill and Kyle,  it was so foggy we couldn't see anything!   Some of the missionaries went the other day and it was cloudy and rainy,  they couldn't see anything.    We really lucked out!

We took this picture from Stanley.  It was really beautiful there.

Getting out

Monday, after two months of watching the world spin around us we took a day off. We decided to get more acquainted with Hong Kong so we took the "Big Bus Tour".   This tour runs buses every twenty minutes and has multiple stops on both the Peninsula and the Island. The buses are double decker’s that are open on the top deck and enclosed with air-conditioning in the bottom deck. The tour allows you to get off at any stop, explore the area of the stop, and then get back on another buss without waiting for more than twenty minutes.

We started on the Island in the Central District and followed the route to the Peak Tram. We took the tram to the top of the mountain that overlooks Hong Kong, and took some photos from the peak. We jumped back on a bus and went through a tunnel to the other side of the Island to Deep Water Bay, Repulse Bay and got off the bus in Stanley. We had a nice lunch in Stanley overlooking the harbor at an Italian Restaurant, ( pizza and lasagna).

We hated to leave but finally caught another bus and went to Aberdeen. Aberdeen was a fishing village populated with numerous fisherman that lived with their families on boats back in seventy-three when I was here serving a mission. Today it is very different with towering residential apartments and condominiums. We took a Sampan ride around the inlet and noticed a few boat people and had our picture taken in front of the old floating Jumbo Restaurant.

The next day we were back at work and Sister Beckstead published her first article in News Room. It was part of her learning experience with the software we use here to write, illustrate and publish church stories. Granted Annie wrote the story and I inserted the pictures, video and hyperlink, Karen is the one who cut and pasted it to the software and whose name is on it if you viewed it from the software. You can find the article if you go to Mormonnewsroom.org, click international and then click Hong Kong. It’s at the top of the page, - Church Launches “Light the World” Christmas Initiative.

We had another opportunity this week to see a number of Humanitarian Projects being considered for the area as well as newly completed projects that are helping thousands of lives in the Asia Area. I think it's  wonderful that in this highly politicalized world, the Church chooses to quietly invest in Government and Non-Government Entities all over the world improving the lives of millions of people and not make it a public issue.

Thank all of you for your support, we love and care about all of you. Hope you all have a good week we know we will.

The Ivory carvings are beautiful,   but I have to tell myself that these elephants died of natural causes before they lost their tusks!  While in Africa a couple of years ago,   we saw first hand the tragedy of poachers,  it was really sad.