Our 2nd full weekend

We did a little bit of cruising around this weekend but tried to stay either in the shade or in air conditioning whenever possible. It was a hot one with very few clouds. This would be perfect for a summer day in Wisconsin, but no clouds means the sun pounding down on you. We keep marveling at how hot it actually is here right now!

I did also manage to figure out how to work our wash machine. Very exciting to have some clean clothes finally! It seems to work fine with the exception of REALLY long cycle times. Most of them are between 2 and 2 1/2 hours. That makes getting a couple of loads of laundry done in one night sort of difficult. The dishwasher is still another story. We haven't gotten that to work yet but I'm convinced that it's not hooked up properly (this of course is my expert plumber opinion). I tried running it based on the manual. It really shouldn't be all the difficult or different from what we're used to, but I ended up having to drain over a gallon of water from the bottom of it because it just sat that way for like 12 hours. Hopefully we can get that fixed this week because washing dishes by hand sort of sucks. As promised, here is a picture of some of the buttons that I couldn't figure out on our wash machine and how I am keeping things straight.















Here are pictures from some other fun things over the last few days:



I was at the Stanley Markets with my Foon Ying (which means welcome in Cantonese) group on Friday. Please note the material used to make my skirt and the material used to the make the dress being sold in one of the stalls is exactly the same. Very crazy. I bought my skirt at Old Navy a year or two ago.











Saturday we went to the 10,000 Buddhas temple. It was beautiful there but we had to hike up over 400 stairs to get to see it. Along the way they have 12,800 buddhas lining the stairway. It's too bad that we can't read Chinese because we really had no idea what any of them were supposed to mean.






Chris at the start of our hike. In about 2 minutes, he'll be drenching with sweat from the heat.










This is what the entire walk looked like on the way up.



















If this guy could speak English, I'm pretty sure he'd be saying "Get in my belly!"




























The very cool pagoda in front of the temple.









A little change of scenery on Saturday night. We hit a local noodle shop for dinner and then headed to Lan Kwai Fong for some drinks. It was a good night filled with a bad mojito (I was missing Cubanitas at that point), lots of Miller Lite (finally! I was so excited) and Elvis. We have no idea why this guy walks around. Spiderman was also in the area but, just like in the movie, he is very hard to catch.