We're Still Here...For a Bit Longer

Wow! The past two years have flown by! We recently agreed to an extension so Hong Kong will be home for us for a bit longer. We were able to get an extension on our apartment lease so we won't have to move... yet.

As you can tell from our lack of updates to our blog, we are not really blog people (which we stated in one of our first posts!)

However, as getting better at updating our blog is one of my New Year's resolutions - let's give it a go! That and maybe it will put an end to my mom's nagging me about this blog!

Last year was a busy year and we did a lot of traveling which I will update you on later (I know - delaying already, right?), but we just had a visitor for Chinese New Year in February. 

Yes, HK has blue skies

My mom (who is newly retired!) came to Hong Kong for a week. She thought she was going to relax but I kept her busy in the kitchen teaching me all of my favorite recipes from my childhood... but I did the washing up...or at least most of it.

As it was in the middle of Melissa's "busy season" she didn't have that much time to join us, but this beautiful day during Chinese New Year she just had to come out with us.  We walked down to the harbor stopping at Melissa's favorite cupcake shop for some take out.

The weather was unusually clear with the factories just over the border in China closed for their two week Chinese New Year holiday.  I took advantage of the nice weather and took my mom up the Morning Trail, a hiking trail not far from our apartment that ends at The Peak with great views of the entire city. 

After a week in Hong Kong, my mom and I headed to Thailand. We stopped in Bangkok where we visited the Grand Palace and a few Wats (temples). From there we headed up north to Chiang Mai. Chiang Mai was a great reprieve from the traffic and pollution of Bangkok. We spent our time in Chiang Mai enjoying (yummy!!) Thai food, shopping at the night market and getting massages.