Case Family in Hong Kong

I’m finished with my school work for this week (at least everything that is a “must” do) so I thought I’d get on here and give an update for the week.  Ezri is walking, she’s started taking 1-6 steps at a time a few days ago so we’re making it official.  She’s also found her nose and she’s figured out her finger fits in there, we’re going to start calling her booger.  I have one month of classes left, thank God.  I’ve stayed up to 4 o’clock at least 2 times this week finishing assignments.  Being that Ezri goes to bed around 7:30pm, the best time for me to get work done on the computer is after that time, unfortunately this whole learning how to do research and write academically is slow going so it’s late nights for me the next month. 

I’ve been looking for a barber or hair salon that will trim my beard and after asking at 4 different places I’ve just about given up.  I go in, they ask if I want haircut I say yes, then ask if they can trim beard, by motioning, then they look at me like I’m crazy and say only haircut, only haircut, then I usually give an angry look or try to explain to them how to use the clippers to trim it, or respond that my beard is hair, but it only leads to more frustration.  They have a saying here that goes something to the effect, “Small scene, small resolution, big scene, big resolution” I take that to mean you have to start acting crazy sometimes to get your point across.  Which is hard to refrain from.  I think I am now officially the hairiest man in Hong Kong. 

Oh I forgot to mention, I got a new computer!  The best thing about it is that school is going to reimburse most of the cost, it’s great.  Melanie & I had a lunch date with two other couples Sunday.  These were women she’s been able to meet by going to certain playgroups throughout the area.  One couple was from New York, the other HK.  All in all, it was really nice to get together with some folks and talk about parenthood, the speed of life in HK, travels and enjoy some great food.  SOHO district is the place to be in HK, how did it take me 3 months to find it?  Well we’ll be posting some more pics within the week.  We went up to Sai Kung last week, it’s a bay town about 20 minutes north of us with some good restaurants and pubs.  They actually have live seafood outside the restaurants in tanks that you can pick to eat from, weird, I only want to see my food fried, boneless and on my plate, but it seems like a bunch of people like it.  Melanie’s parents arrive in less than 3 weeks and we’re starting to get excited!