Well happy 4th of July! I must say celebrating here is much different than celebrating at home... there were no fire works and there was certainly no grilling going on ( that is due to the excruciatingly hot temperatures making it unbearably hot to even entertain the thought of eating something hot much less cooking it over smoking hot coals) none the less After a full 2 weeks of camp had come to a close we were feeling really good and decided to celebrate ( this was a celebration of completing 2 weeks of program and 4 weeks of eating pretty much purely asian food) with a veeeeery American meals and what better place to do this than T.G.I. Fridays. So we all get gussied up- made ourselves look presentable( we were mainly dressing up for the food we were about to eat because we were soooooo excited) and all went and ordered 4 very large hamburgers complete with potatoes ( Maggie and I opted for mashed potatoes while Lisa and Laura were more partial to the French Fry variety of potatoes) and proceeded to eat and eat until our plates were clean. Now some might say really? really? and to you I say yes! REALLY! we ate it all and to top it all we all ordered our own dessert and proceeded to finish our desserts as well. We didn't even consider the possibility of walking up the hill to our house( one of us might have popped- in reality we probably should've walked to sweat off some Lb's but at that point in time that just didn't seem realistic.) AnAmerican meal.... Now that's patriotism right?
Well if that wasn't enough patriotism today ( on the actual 4th of July at least here in Hong Kong) we took an excursion to Lantau Island and all dressed up in our finest red white and blue ( or whatever red white and blue we could find- which was mainly t- shirts and shorts so maybe not the finest but whatever) Now on Lantau Island is the Biggest OUTDOOR, SEATED, BRONZED buddah.... ( you see it's not technically the largest outdoor buddah and it's not the largest seated buddah, and probably not the biggest bronzed buddah BUT it's the largest outdoor,seated,bronzed buddah- they're like one grouping it's not like there can be an "and" between those descriptor words) Anyways It was quite a site. Now I know the Bible says you shall have no other God's before me and I have no intention to start worshiping buddah, not by any means, but really this things was crazy big and really intricate. I took lots of pictures but it felt seriously irreverant to take pictures of the temple because I considered what if people came up into my church and gawked and took pictures in an irreverant sense and potentially later looking back at them and saying " Holy crap would you take a look at that..." I mean it seemed just wrong no matter if it's my religion or not to stand there and take pictures... Anyways after buddah and the temple we went to the stilt village on Lantau Island it's called Tai-O It literally is a bunch of houses on stilts all cramed next to one and other and then you have to drive a boat to get to your house or you can walk accross to draw bridge to get to a road It's crazy I always felt like I was invading someones privacy while I was wakling through the city.. wierd. While riding the bus back we saw some cattle grazing by the side of the road- a lovely site I don't know why but it gave me quite a laugh. And then finally we took the ferry back to Central and then walked back to our home sweet home. Lovely lovely day...
Now I promise at some point tomorrow hopefully i'll try and recap last week with camp etc. and also upload pictures yikesabee i'm a bit behind I suppose.... well Enjoy your 4th of July I know I sure did :)
Tina
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