Birds, Brides and Babies

(bus to Ikea to get a few things)

This post is long overdue! Ruthanne has been here for a week already and we are just getting around to blogging about it. It has been so fun to have her come over for dinner, spend the night and explore Hong Kong together. On Sunday of last week after she spent a few days with us, we took her to the Mid-Levels and explored her new neighborhood. Funny story: we almost dropped her off at the housing for the Chinese embassy employees but found Mother's Choice when the guards told us to leave :-) The whole time we were wondering why babies needed a basket ball court and a swimming pool.

Ruthanne or "Anne" in front of the wrong housing estate. Chinese people can't say the "r" or the "th" so we changed her name. Brad really wanted her to pick a more interesting Chinese girl's name like: Winky, Purple, Rainbow, Flame (honestly these are all names of students at our school or Mc Donald's employees we've met.)

(Ruthie's living room/dinning room)

Ruthanne lives in a very cool part of Hong Kong and the view from her cute (and much larger apartment than ours) is amazing: Hong Kong Park! After unpacking some of her stuff we ventured off to the aviary in Hong Kong Park.



The whole park was amazing. As we ventured down to the lower part of the park we realized that Sunday is the day to get married and to get your wedding pictures taken at Hong Kong Park (maybe the date 10-10-10 was also an influential factor). We spotted 9 brides and their bridal parties. We had a fun time looking at the pretty (and pretty weird) choices of wedding dresses, tuxes and brides maid dresses. Two brides' accessories really made us giggle: the feather head-dress (show below) and the fur shawl (mind you it was about 80 degrees with 85%humidity that day)


We ended the day with an evening church service close to Ruthanne's house and dinner at a great Taco place. All in all a fun day but Ruthie was a little sad when we left. Good thing we do live close enough that she can come by twice a week. She is learning how to navigate public transportation quicker than I did! Pray for her as she adjusts to her new life at Mother's Choice. She is LOVING holding all the beautiful babies and is becoming an expert at giving them baths.