Hong Kong-

Hong Kong Island- We're happy!

Dim Sum...and then sum! Hong Kong [ By SSS]

We arrived on Hong Kong Island late at night. The next morning overlooking the harbor with a view of Kowloon waterfront in front of me, I was astounded and I got a little choked up at the enormity of this former British Colony. Nanci felt the same. She had just finished reading the Piano Teacher, a novel in which the backdrop is Hong Kong late 30's to early 50's during Japanese occupation.

I suppose the high summary of our impression of Hong Kong is summed up when Nanci said, “Sheila, if you ever moved here, I would move here with you.” I thought, " Good, because I could live here for a few months too."

The Old Star Ferry

We are only here for 72 hours and we could experience shopping on steroids since there are stores galore, but why? We can’t fit anything in our suitcases and we don’t want to lose precious time figuring out how to ship things home and …where, where would we ship to?

That aside, a few months back, I found out about a Kowloon waterfront tai chi class with William Ng and his lovely wife, Pandora Wu. I thought then if only we could find that class that would be something very special, a memorable encounter. The class promised to be in the open air, over looking Hong Kong Harbor and to teach us at least 10 basic tai chi positions. Nanci has shown an interest in tai chi, so we agreed even if it meant getting up at 5:30 am and taking the first ferry out to Kowloon….it would be worth it. It was more then just a morning meditation, it was a stirring of the senses.

Later we went for sme freshly made Dim Sum, fresh fruit and MORE green tea.

While waiting for approval for our Myanmar [Burma] visas we registered for the fashion market just to check on what the trends for 2011 will be. Get ready girls….animal prints, animal print bags, shoes and fabrics. I have tried the leopard look and it’s NOT ME. And I know it’s not Nanci. We had us some fun and in this photo you can get an idea of the scale of everything

At the show , we ran up and down the rows and rows of what seemed like millions of purses, millions of shoes, leathers, silks and then some!

Scale

Trade Show Babes

Bags-Bags and mo bags!

IT Guys Rock!!!!!!

I have a soft spot for computer guys and so we made some new friends and drank some more green tea.

Happy Birthday-70 is great!

Hong Kong is memorable. Probably the funniest memory was at the the top of the Hyatt having a drink and overlooking the harbor when all of sudden I said, "look...just for you." And there it was in lights. Happy Birthday. Purely a coincidence, but nice nontheless.

Today is Chinese Day, I guess the same as 4th of July or Mexico's independence day. Lucky us again...the harbor will be filled with fire works and of course we will get to see this while tucking away another memory from our around the world experience.

But for us.....we will always remember our special morning rise time with early morning tai chi doing white crane flapping wings and grasping bird tail positions with the lovely and very remarkable William Ng and his wife Pandora Wu