I am not sure if I have mentioned this... We have not been getting any of our forwarded mail from the USA. We have an address through B's work and they forward everyone's mail to a FedEx retail store in Kowloon.

In the beginning we waited very patiently after being told things could take 3 or 4 weeks to arrive to us. After being here over a month we had received just a few things and we got concerned. B contacted somebody at his work to check up on the situation and we were reassured that it just takes time.

In the mean time, we have two Grandma's asking if we have received specific things they have sent. We are waiting on final bills from our Oregon utility companies, we can't sign up for a credit card because we aren't getting B's pay stubs, we are waiting on restart discs for the computer that was dropped in May... We are watching everyone around us get mail but we were getting nothing for ourselves.

So after a few emails of gentle prodding from B and the generic responses indicating no one was actually checking into it, he got a little more forceful and we then received a very apologetic email telling us that there had been a mistake and our mail was going to B's locker in Memphis.

My reaction: "You have a locker in Memphis?"

Anyway we were told the stuff would arrive here in Hong Kong this week and we'd get a phone call when it came in. It all came today. 4 months of mail. Granted, not many people/companies have this address so 4 months worth of actual mail that you actually want is a lot less than 5 months of mail including catalogs and all your junk mail. But it was still a huge bag full.

B and I headed out right after dinner to go pick it up. How great to have M around to hang out here with the kids while we run out for a "quick" errand. I say "quick" because no errands in this city are quick. It took us over two hours to go get the mail and pick up a pair of pants B had tailored.

We rode a ferry to Central, walked .3 mile to take another ferry over to Kowloon, and then walked another mile to the FedEx store. Then we went to pick up the pants which was pretty close to there and did the whole thing in reverse to get home. And it's 85 degrees and 95% humidity. Insane!