Family love

I know my family loves me dearly. One knows this, of course, you know that your family must love you- they sort of have to, right? It's just that way. Unless you have extremely good reason to believe otherwise, you simply assume, on some level, that your family loves you. It's their job. And you love them back, even when they confuse the hand towel with the dish drying towel, and so on... :)

But now I really know that my family loves me. They flew half way around the world, enduring what I know from experience to be temporary hell, in order to spend a little over one week with me and Ryan. They wanted to see us, and see a bit of our lives in Hong Kong. Thankfully, we have a decent sized place- enormous by Hong Kong standards, thanks to Missionaries a long time ago, and so Mom, Dad, Olav and Corie all stayed with us. Any of you others are also welcome. Just some notice, please.

We had a great time together exploring HK. Not enough touring by my standards, but as they also wanted a vacation of sorts (if that is possible with severe jet-lag) so overall I can't complain. Ryan and I can can go see more museums on our own as time permits... or with other visitors...?

Highlights: a fun trip to a local Hong Kong theme park, Ocean Park, a must for families, where Dad, Olav, Katrina and Corie all got drenched together on a flume ride (oh yeah!) and preceded to freeze a bit in the chilly winter air (attempts at 'spinning' dry on the next ride, a puke-a-wheel without seat belts, were unsuccessful, but we giggled a lot); a late night meal at our favorite Indian Restaurant and sharing curries; the 'kids' exploring the New Year's Eve 'party' put on by the government in Shatin Park (in our area) and enjoying the family event- especially middle school students having a hip-hop dance off on stage and Katrina getting her picture taken with the Ice Fairies (Corie, can you send me that picture, please?); kitchen chats and Olav helping to feed the cats; Stanley market and french fries by the seaside during the warm weather we had the first few days... too many fun days! Well, you get the idea... not all Walton moments but a fantastic time. Thank you guys for making the trip and spending time with us. :)

And now we finish the clean-up... the laundry is almost all done (all that bedding can take a while with our little urban washing machine!)

Love,
Katrina and Ryan