Sunday

Today was a beautiful day. I don't take such things lightly any more. Apparently in China, buildings that are south of the Yangtze River don't own heaters. The weather in Hong Kong is usually rather mild; the last couple of days have been in the 50's. However, when you never really warm up because there is no heat anywhere, it starts to get pretty cold, pretty fast. My shoulders have been aching and I realized it was because my muscles were tense all the time because I was so cold. Not the greatest experience.

This morning we went to an international church in down town Hong Kong. It was a nice idea, but a little too sermon light for my tastes. We met a very nice Chinese man, Alfred who directed us to a wonderful Vietnamese resturant. Great pho.

This afternoon we walked around one of the numerous parks Hong Kong has. Not only is Hong Kong big on public parks, but Hong Kong is also big on exotic birds in said public parks. The one today had flamingos and peacocks.

There were a plethora of Indonesian muslim women out and about today. According to Alfred, Hong Kong has a huge Indonesian population. Women come here as hired domestic help. Sunday is their day off so they all congrigate in public parks, thousands of them. Seeing all the hegebs made me strangely nostaligic for Egypt.