Our 3-Month Anniversary

It is hard to believe, but this past weekend marked our 3-month anniversary of being here in Hong Kong. Really, I can't figure out where the time has gone! We are, mostly, starting to feel much more comfortable in the city and it's feeling more and more like home everyday. All of our painting is done. Now I'm just waiting for the handy-man to call us back to hang some shelves. Don't laugh. In normal circumstances, I'd insist we'd be able to do it ourselves. I am, afterall, a true Carter, but our walls are made of cement with a nice little quasi-plaster finish over them to make it look like dry wall. So there's no drilling in to these walls, not without a special drill bit. And since our drill got packed in to storage before Chris had a chance to separate it, we'd have to buy a whole new drill as well. At this point, I think it's cheaper to hire the handy man. There's a curtain adventure beginning but I'll save that for another blog entry.

It was a sad weekend for Wisconsin sports, and thanks to Slingbox, I got to watch just about all of it. We watched the Badger vs. Illini game live. I fell asleep at half-time (please remember that it was about 2:30 a.m. here at that point) and decided to go to bed as soon as I woke up and saw that the Badgers were still losing. I consider it a good decision on my part. The Illini part of my family is reveling in the win, and I'm sure that Brad Foster is as well. I watched the Packers blaze through the first half against the Bears and then slowly lose. That was a bit painful but Slingbox is a beautiful thing.

Thankfully, our junk trip turned out to be very fun on Saturday - something to numb the losses a little bit. Here are some pictures from the day. We did a little wake-boarding and then had the banana boat pumped up so we could go for a ride. It's a lot like tubing where the goal is to get you off! Needless to say, we were all a bit soar on Sunday morning. Not the greatest pictures but they're all I've got right now.

Hopefully everyone back home enjoyed their Indian Summer over the weekend. It sounds like the fall is really starting to settle in.