Hello dear friends and dear family. How do you like our real Christmas tree? It smells wonderful, too. We really like to walk through the lobby of our apartment/hotel as we can always see "our" tree and smell the beautiful pine smell. We have no idea where they got it but it had to be shipped here.
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| Also, do you like these beautiful poinsettias that are planted everywhere around our apartments? They are really beautiful. |
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| As you can see, it's still Christmas time here in Hong Kong. |
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| I (Carol) also had a birthday this week and I want to thank you for your kind birthday greetings! One of the sister senior missionaries made up this photo frame with my favorite things to do; walking, traveling, making cookies, crocheting, knitting, traveling, and especially, loving the grandchildren! (How about that walking "photo" looks just like me, wouldn't you say?) |
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| This was one of my favorite parts of the photo as I've never mastered chopsticks- isn't that a better idea- if you can't eat with them- knit a scarf with your chopsticks! |
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| If any of you are our "friends" on Facebook, you'll think that all we do is party around here which isn't far from the truth this week. We had two big Christmas parties with the Filipino sisters. We celebrated on Thursday with the Thursday sisters and we celebrated Friday with the Friday sisters. Here are some of them decorating. Now keep in mind they only have one day off a week and so everything has to be done in one day; shopping for themselves, handling their finances, sometimes immigration issues, etc, etc, etc. How did they ever find enough time in a short while here to make these decorations from scratch? |
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There were so many stars completely made from magazine pages, wrapping paper and colored paper. All of the decorations were 'homemade'.
Here's Thursday's traditional Christmas dinner which also included sticky rice; my favorite. There were many beautiful dishes. The chicken wings were a big favorite, too. We don't know how they were able to make so much in such a short time.
Friday wasn't quite as elaborate but the missionary sisters made some great sandwiches to go with the cake and other goodies.
Here's Elder Chandler getting ready for the big balloon popping contest. We had to play lots of games everyday and we had a great time but we did get worn out. Here's a link to some of the photos, videos of games we played: Fun Times. Here's Thursday's stuff if you are still interested: Thursday groupWe only have one more Christmas party to go with our Sunday branch which won't be for a week. Earlier each day, we had wonderful sacrament meetings where we were able to read beautiful scriptures and sing the wonderful Christmas hymns. I played the piano and that was a stretch for me but I was happy that I was able to do a pretty good job accompanying the singing. |
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| It wouldn't be Christmas without Mr. and Mrs. Santa Claus! We think Santa has been on a diet, though. |
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We hope your Christmas time is as happy and bright and wonderful as ours has been. MERRY CHRISTMAS! (again!)
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