tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post5906703167927603587..comments2024-03-28T13:09:38.543-06:00Comments on Larch Haven: Hong KongAaron E. Steelehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07789462075611254929noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post-91615102767766174072013-04-10T14:48:42.998-06:002013-04-10T14:48:42.998-06:00Rebecca:
About the pedometer. 5,840 steps the ...Rebecca: <br /><br />About the pedometer. 5,840 steps the day before yesterday. Last night I check just before I went to bed. We had gone to Hong Kong and Wyona and I had shopped the local streets from 7 pm to midnight. 52,800 steps. Now it makes sense why she had to turn around and come home in Hong Kong because her feet were hurting. And it makes sense why I was saying, yes, I can stay out longer, but don't ask me to lead the way or to do any math.<br /><br />She had blamed our tiredness on the fact that we are growing old. I thought the fatigue was still about jet lag. But the pedometer does not lie. It was about our 58,000 steps.<br /><br />ArtaArta Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07329194629476229822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post-24092740218290497172013-04-10T14:45:21.666-06:002013-04-10T14:45:21.666-06:00Another comment on the local markets from me.
Yes...Another comment on the local markets from me.<br /><br />Yesterday in those first waking moments, when I often begin to worry about something, my biggest fear was how I was going to get a chance to taste a plate full of those oyster balls in the Harbour City Food Court. Both Wyona and Greg told me they were out on sharing with respect to those.<br /><br />This morning I woke up thinking about the local markets. Practising my seven times table. I am good up to 77, so I was practising 84, 91 and 98, so that I would know what it is that, times sevens, is good for 12's, 13's and 14's. How is that for bringing the desire to be good in the market home with me. I saw a purse yesterday. It was $99 HKD and it took me a while to do my math to see what the value was in Canadian money.<br /><br />What a wonderful feeling it is to have hundred dollar bills in my wallet. How unusual to know that each represents only $14. <br /><br />Anway, I love the markets and the sevens times table.<br /><br />AJ<br /><br />AJArta Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07329194629476229822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post-7898099860731729882013-04-10T14:17:28.187-06:002013-04-10T14:17:28.187-06:00Re your love of the local markets, Tonia. Wyona a...Re your love of the local markets, Tonia. Wyona and I don't have a name for that small store that is packed full of what Greg calls stuff. "I found a store full of stuff for you," he says to her -- not calling it junk as many people would.<br /><br />Last night Wyona bought eight tiny cloth silk pouches that close with an unusual clasp. The material runs along two tracks that look like gold paper clips and then snaps with the face of an animal. Inside a person could put one wrapped candy, like a caramel. The package of eight had to go in her wicker basket of stuff she wanted to buy -- usually she adds that it is for the little girls -- the ones who come to their grandmother's place to play. Now how is that for fun at the market!Arta Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07329194629476229822noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post-37340379108033050912013-04-10T11:50:51.027-06:002013-04-10T11:50:51.027-06:00I am with all of you in my head and I write a thes...I am with all of you in my head and I write a thesis about other people's travels. Give me local markets any day over high priced 'fashion'. Toniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15960486841313449167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post-59987164666106249942013-04-10T09:51:46.621-06:002013-04-10T09:51:46.621-06:00This is great. i love your pedometer's abili...This is great. i love your pedometer's ability to tell its own tale!Rebecca Johnsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07835541074766008269noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8784798779972837102.post-40152959318325604272013-04-10T09:42:56.954-06:002013-04-10T09:42:56.954-06:00I wanted to take a trolley ride on one of those tr...I wanted to take a trolley ride on one of those trolleys but my foot was hurting so I opted to go home. The Hong Kong on the 1970's is gone. Wyonahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09109494772804214062noreply@blogger.com