HKG050: Where There's Smoke, There's Fire...Sorta

one of the highlights of our day today was these swirled cones at mcdonald's. not only were they colorful, they were flavorful. quinn's, which was purple, was grape flavored. livie's, which was dark pink, was raspberry flavored. josh and i each had brown swirls, which were chocolate flavored.

this image is going on my list of strangest things i have seen. pigeons are nesting birds, right? i am guessing that, like most of us in hong kong, they are just getting a rest wherever they can regardless of whether this space is "normal" for them.

when he woke up, quinn was thrilled to get into the play-time action. here, he's waiting for those two big boys to bounce the bouncy bridge...he thought that was pretty awesome. random side note...quinn is FINALLY jumping with both feet leaving the ground at the same time. he is thrilled with his new prowess.

i asked livie to stop so i could take her pic on this chain bridge...i am not sure why she looks so pained. she was having fun.

my fearless monkey

part of quinn's nap took place in the park in his stroller with people stopping to look at him like he was the main attraction (i have yet to figure out the fascination with a sleeping kid). oh. maybe they were staring at him because he's all tatted up. heh.

quinn fell asleep on the bus...again, almost as soon as it started moving. this kid is sooooo much like me in some of the strangest ways. as a kid, i also fell asleep in a moving vehicle pretty much as soon as it started moving. in fact, i did that right up until i had kids.

today started out pretty slow...just putzing around the apartment and catching up with family on skype. in the middle of talking to uncle brian and aunt rayo, livie looks up and says "why is there smoke in here?" our living room a/c (the term is air con here) was brewing a small electrical fire. oooh goody. fortunately, turning the unit off stopped the fire, and everything is fine...hot and muggy, but fine. we have four a/c units. three of them are now malfunctioning. did i mention oh goody?

after the morning drama, we headed out to victoria park for some play time, and then off for lunch as a family, and then we split up for a couple errands. today, i got to go out shopping with just livie...this was a blast. we did get caught in a pretty big rainstorm, but we still had fun. i took her down to the wet markets i learned about the other day, and then we stopped at a small shop that has all sorts of interesting things...we went in to look for the lucky cat we want to send to our friends and family back home, which we did not find, but we found a couple of cute things for livie before we headed back home. along the way, we met three dogs and got to pet two of them. one was a collie puppy, and his mommy described him much the way we describe sookie...tries soooo hard to be good, but the badness just gets through :-)