What a busy day we had today. My apartment is a total disaster. Hand prints on the windows, crumbs on the floor, peanut butter still on the seats from lunch. It was one of those days. Busy!

We have been stalking the for sale ad postings on our local neighborhood forum for several household items. We are hoping to avoid having to buy new stuff. (There is a pretty active use of craigslist in HK but for our local community people just use the local forum instead.) This morning we went to see a refrigerator that someone had listed for sale. We decided if we could find exactly the size we wanted for the price we wanted to pay we may buy one so we could have a second fridge in the closet room off the kitchen. The fridge that came in the apartment is an older model, it runs loudly and it's too small for our family of four. And it's too small for us people who actually cook. The vacant unused space around our current fridge got us dreaming of how wonderful it would be if that whole space was full of cold food storage... I digress. So we found the perfect one! We've arranged for it to be moved here on Friday morning with a little local moving company. I'm so excited for a newer prettier BIGGER fridge and B is excited to have an extra fridge for his beer brewing adventures. Have I mentioned he brought tons of beer brewing goods? Should be interesting. He used to brew beer years ago but hasn't done it since I have known him. And I am excited to learn about how it works. I'm sure I'll be writing more about that soon enough.

I am such a Nosey Nelly I cannot tell you how excited I get to go into people's apartments when we go check stuff out that's listed for sale. This is infinitely more fun for me than taking walks through my neighborhood at dusk hoping people haven't closed their curtains for the day and I will get to easily peek in their windows. Doing that used to be one of my favorite past times. But now I have advanced to actually going inside on the pretense I might buy their junk. It's awesome. Last night we went to check something out on a street that is way way way out of our budget. These people were literally ON the beach. Ridiculous. So we go in and head to the room to see the goods, came out 2 minutes later and couldn't find G... oh there she is on the couch with this woman's kids watching tv with them. We all got a good laugh out of that. I think G thought we had gone to visit and meet some new friends. Too funny.

G had her first field trip today to the grocery store. They rode a bus there and everything. She said they looked at different types of food and compared healthy choices to the unhealthy choices. We asked her to learn the word for pineapple today but she couldn't remember. Oh the pressure! She did come home yesterday and volunteered her first word in Mandarin. "Yumi" means corn. Wow. It was the exact same feeling you get when your kid speaks their first English word. Now the funny part is that B and I can't even say it right. yoomee. How hard can it be? Apparently it IS hard! She is totally saying it with a tone or a flavor that B and I can't quite get. I can clearly hear her say it the right way and then I butcher it with my American twang no matter how hard I try. Pretty weird.

Tomorrow B is taking his mountain bike out with the boys for his first ride in HK. He is pretty pumped. I hope he has a great (safe) time. I will not allow myself to worry!