Newsworthy day: Rain in NC and Angus’s first blog pic!

Date October 26, 2007

Angus, the office pit-boss, will be featured on this blog many times, but it is worth celebrating this, his first appearance. Gretchen snapped this pic while walking Angus at lunch. She left the umbrella as shelter for him as she briefly ran inside but, apparently, he likes umbrellas even less than he likes rain. Despite [...]

Designing a day of meandering

Date October 10, 2007

We were tired today, and tired of all of the smells and noise of Tsim Sha Tsui, so we decided to spend the day leisurely walking around in the Central district of Hong Kong. We went to a buncha art galleries, which I will write more about later, after I can backtrack and figure out [...]

10,000 everything (except Buddhas)

Date October 8, 2007

We have a long list of things we’d like to see in Hong Kong this trip, and one thing on the list was the 10,000 Buddhas Monastery. It’s in the New Territories (the burbs), which is a direction not really on our path for the rest of the trip, so we multi-tasked and added other [...]