Home Sweet Home

There is no place like home. 

We are so happy to announce that we are FINALLY home.  After one month in temporary housing, we moved into our permanent apartment today!!!  We are in no shape to post pictures yet, but we are getting there.  Our temporary housing was in a pretty busy part of town called Causeway Bay, where simply walking out the door involved swimming through a sea of thousands of people, so we are so happy to be in our permanent home, which is located in the part of Hong Kong called the "Mid-Levels".  It's a bit of hike to get up here (and I do mean UP - you take the world's longest escalator to get here), but once you are here, it is pretty peaceful. 

We ran into a pretty funny event today. We were getting our cable and internet connected "sometime between 4 and 6 pm" - you know how that goes.  Dude didn't show up until 7:30... but I digress.  Anyways, the catch was, we HAD to have our TV by 4, otherwise, he couldn't hook up the cable.  Problem with that was... Brian started his job this week (yay!!  teaching at the American International School - they took one look at his resume and were ecstatic to have a teacher of his caliber), and I am working like a maniac, so we don't have a ton of time during the week to do things like pick out a TV.  So, that fell to today... and we didn't really have a good plan.  We went to the mall, thinking, great, we'll pick out a TV, they will deliver it for us in a few hours, and, boom, we are done.  Um, not so much.  The earliest most places could deliver the TV was next Tuesday.  Hong Kong... we have a problem.  Anyways, we eventually found a place that had a TV actually IN STOCK.  They couldn't deliver it for us today, but they would let us take it with us.  This is where the circus began... people don't really do this kind of thing here... but we didn't really have a choice.  So here are Brian and I, weaving through the thousands of people in, you guessed it, Causeway Bay, with our huge TV box... down the elevator, down an escalator, and through a stream of people.  We had to wait in line for a taxi, and people just stared at us like we had eight heads.  Luckily, the TV fit in the cab... otherwise, I'm not quite sure what we would have done.  Problem was that I didn't really fit in the cab with the TV too, so I just kind of perched on the edge of the seat and hung on for dear life.  Long story short (well, not really), the TV got to the apartment, the cable is activated, and we can watch all the Chinese reality TV we want.  :)

We'll post pictures as soon as things are presentable... currently trying to figure out how to say "NEED MORE STORAGE" in Cantonese.  :)

Love and miss you all!