Sea shipment has arrived

Ok, here goes, a blog from Hong Kong!

I'm sitting on top of boxes in our office.  Four small truck loads of stuff arrived today, not bad considering my neighbor across the driveway had 12!  Let's hope everything fits.  Seamus and Rich are having lunch at at Thai restaurant in our town (repulse bay).  No our town is not repulsive, it is actually quite beautiful much like any small town on the water.  Riley, Annie and Conor are with our Australian neighbors having lunch in a town called Checko...this is a fun beach town in the southern part of the island, about 20 min's by car.  And me?  I'm nodding and smiling at the movers as I try to tell them where to put things...think I better learn some Cantonese!

And Ginger...she has been at the groomer's today, can't wait to see how she looks.  I think Ginger likes it here..each day Rich and I take her for a walk to the beach at the end of our road, about 3 miles round trip.  The road is lovely, lots of lush vegetation growing on the hillsides, feels like we are in the tropics...well I guess we sort of are!  The beach is clean, I swam in the water yesterday with Riley, so far no strange skin lesions or sickness.  And the typhoon?  Fortunately we have been spared.  Several light showers throughout the day with thunderstorms and lightening at night, pretty cool to watch out of our windows.  Our windows, I must get curtains!!  Gotta go.

Thanks for checking in.  So far we are healthy and happy.  Orientation for Riley and Seamus is Friday and for Annie and Conor Monday.  It will be nice to see them start school and get involved with kids here.

Mary