Kraig was our second visitor, arriving in Hong Kong the day after Alan left. We finally got a good family portrait when Kraig took this shot with his new camera.
Archive for February, 2008
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Published 11 February 2008 Hong Kong , Lamma Island , Sha Po New Village 1 CommentTags: noah, trinh, zoe
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Published 11 February 2008 Hong Kong , Lamma Island , Sha Po New Village 1 CommentTags: trinh
Here’s Trinh on New Year’s morning. I brought back the decorations from my last trip to China. The hand-calligraphed chun lian (a special new year’s duilan) on the sides of and above the door offers good luck wishes for the family and home. The fortune gods on the door (Cai Shen on the left and some other dude on the right) protect the home from intruders, supernatural and otherwise. The kumquat trees ensure prosperity through the new year. All the red (along with firecrackers at midnight new year’s eve) chase away the Nian who would otherwise come down from the mountains and eat us all up.
Zoe’s first visitor in Hong Kong was her Grand Doctor Alpo, who arrived just a couple days after the rest of us mid-January. He is currently working on a project in Laos, but will return for another visit in March.
My mother has been putting me to shame, creating her own blog and updating it thirty-seven times in the last five days, while I haven’t done a damn thing here in over a month. Time to start catching up. Terran has been teaching Zoe all sorts of new things like playing with her hands and feet, and she and Trinh finally got a big belly laugh out of Zoe in the Lock Cha Tea House today.
