Mark and the kids took off on Monday to Tiger Hill. A garden/pagoda that we have been wanting to see. They went with some friends of ours. These pictures were taken with Abigail's new camera.
Once I was up to leaving the apartment we went back to Lion's Grove garden. We went there in October and really enjoyed it but the main reason we went back was we had heard that a really great shop is right across the street from the entrance to the garden. Well, we've looked for the shop 3 times and never been able to find it. The last time we took a taxi and the driver could not find it either! He even got out and asked someone and they didn't know. So we have some friends who had been and so we visited the garden with them and then they showed us where the shop is.. and it really was right across the street but the name was hidden. Needless to say, we felt pretty stupid! Great shop though. A lot of handmade furniture and woodwork. We'll probably think more seriously about buying some items before we return home but don't have space or need for it right now. Here are some pictures from the garden.
So we had a couple of outings, the kids played with their friends and I recovered. Last Sunday we were off to Hong Kong at 5:30 in the morning! We were quite ready to see some other parts of China, that is after all, a big part of why we are here.
I'm going to do a blog for each day in Hong Kong because we did so much. I was going to blog every evening we were there but we decided to simplify things by not taking the laptop.
So that's all for the 1st week of our break.
