Bird Garden, Flower market, and ladies market

We had a great time going to the bird garden and flower market and ladies market last Saturday.  Here are a few photos and little videos.

There were cages an cages and cages of birds to see.  They sell them, too.

They sold lots of live grasshoppers to feed to the birds, too!

We went with Elder and Sister Stevens who are a new couple who will be serving in the Hong Kong Temple.  Their home is in Springville, Utah, too.

Then we were off to go to the flower market.  (No that's not us!)

We always enjoy seeing Bonzai trees and wondering just how old they really are.

They also had a couple of Christmas stores there that we enjoyed walking through.

Aren't the roses gorgeous?

There were flowers everywhere but we just took a couple of photos.

We must have only gotten a little of the ladies outdoor market and no photos but it is just another outdoor market.

Aren't these beautiful flower vases, too?

Here are the flowers we brought home.  They are beautiful and very fragrant, too!

Some of the tall buildings have some beautiful Christmas lights on them now.

We thought we'd end the post with a little "taste of home."

If you read the print at the bottom of the carton, you will see that we came all the way to Hong Kong just to buy Gossner's milk from Logan, Utah.  Is that kind of ironic or what? We wonder if Gossners know their milk is sold in Hong Kong? Yes it is shelf milk and that is pretty much all that we buy to drink but our favorite is actually from Australia, though.

Here's a fun little video that you might have seen but it's worth seeing again, we think:
Good little Thanksgiving video
We hope you are all having enjoying some happy holidays these days, too!

Here's one more:
Thankful

Temple devotional, Christmas and cars

We have a new temple presidency so we attended a really nice devotional in the church across the street from the temple and were able to hear them speak, and afterwards we attended a dinner there. 

This year is also the 20th anniversary of the Hong Kong Temple.

Monday we went to the World Trade center here in Hong Kong to get our flu shots and saw that they are already busy decorating around Hong Kong for Christmas.

We decided to walk back to our office and along the way we took a few photos of the cars in the car dealerships along Gloucester road.

 

This Lamborghini didn't even come to my waist so it might be a little hard to get in and out of. I don't think Elder Chandler (walking along there) would fit in the car even with a very large shoe horn to get him in.

Rolls Royce anyone?  You see these type of cars everywhere in Hong Kong.  There are no American cars, a few Japanese cars and lots of European cars.  The import tax is 100% on these cars so can imagine what people are paying for them.

 

Just a cheap Bentley.  I think Gary needs one of these.  Of course he would have to be the chauffeur rather than the passenger.

 

The Porsche dealership almost right next to the church and offices.  Not a very good picture--must have been a small earthquake when I took the picture.

Who would want a Mazda in Hong Kong?  Must be for the poor people.  Of course we would be happy with any car but on the other hand there is no place to park.

I think this is a Maserati--probably won't go over 200 MPH.  There are lots of the expensive Tesla models here as well.

 

For Lotus is only for small people who want to go fast.  Good color for Halloween but that's past.

"Lotus" all press on!  Have a great week everyone!
Here's a nice link about the Hong Kong Temple:
Hong Kong Temple

Perfect Life!

Isn't this club great and it's only a couple of blocks away from the office.  I think we all need to get a lifetime membership, don't you?

We hope you all had a Happy Halloween.  The only costumed people we saw were Elder and Sister Thong, although we saw costumes for sale. We hear that Halloween is big here but we must not have known where to look. 




Here's Elder Chandler all ready to go to the grocery store. Does that count for a costume?  (ha ha!) 

Here was tonight's self-reliance class.  The sisters tell us some great stories about their lives and their plans.  They are changing many things in their lives because of the things they are learning in self-reliance.  One of the sisters, Gloria, has decided to finally go home to the Philippines after being abroad for 24 years working as a domestic helper.  She has been with her current employer for 16 years and has raised the employers' children.  Unfortunately, Gloria had to leave her own daughter when the daughter was 2 years old and her daughter is now 22.  Gloria feels bad that she wasn't able to be home to raise her children but she has been somewhat fortunate that her son served a mission and her daughter was married in the temple.  Unfortunately, during this time abroad, Gloria lost her husband, though. 

Here's more of our favorite sisters; this time they are mostly sisters from our Sunday "Education for Better Work self-reliance class.

So you can see that there wasn't a whole lot of photos that we took this week but maybe we'll have more next week.
Here's a few links that you might enjoy reading and seeing more about Hong Kong, etc:

Interesting things about Hong Kong

Dipal Barau

If you saw the link above then you will recognize Brother Dipal Barua and his sweet wife standing in front of the Hong Kong temple.  They were just married this week there, too. We saw him again attending the temple when we were helping there in the temple on Tuesday. He and his sweet bride know the right way to start their nearly "Perfect Life".  If you want to see more about him you can go to facebook and search for Dipal Barua.

We wish you the very best in all that you do, too!