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Hello!
I hope everyone had a good Thanksgiving!
Unlike certain holidays (hint hint), I enjoy Thanksgiving very
much, mainly because of the food of course.
The trick is to see
where you're invited to and then where the best food would be.
And always have a back-up plan in case the turkey burned in the
first place. And a good cranberry sauce is a must!
So yes, mine
was just great, except I was so jet-lagged I skipped the pumpkin
pie and went home.
I had such a good time in H.K!! I have only been there about 5
times and never got to see anything.
We visited the 10,000
Buddha temple, which obviously had 10,000 Buddha statues, all of
them representing different things and expressions.
The coolest
thing about it was this tradition of holding a cup with these
sticks inside, each having a different number on them, and
shaking them until only one falls out. While you are shaking
these sticks you are supposed to think of something you would
want to know about.
The trick is, if more than one stick falls
out, that thought is one big mess....which kind of freaked me
out a bit because excuse me, I don't shake sticks on a daily
basis and how the heck am I supposed to make only one fall out,
right?
So there I was on my knees, looking like a complete
idiot, for 3 minutes shaking this thing so carefully that I
think the sticks were so sick of shaking, that finally one fell
out. Then you take this stick to a fortune teller and he tells
you what this number means corresponding to what you were
thinking of.
Some of the things he said were very interesting
and quite promising. We also visited the main temple in the
city center which was full of people, some who were having their
lunch picnic....not my choice of a lunch location but neither is
an alive looking duck.
The Stanley area and the market were nice
fresh air getaways from the city, which sometimes feels a little
over crowded and polluted. Repulse Bay was one big picture
opportunity because it's full of these huge, colorful statues
right on the bay.
My favorite part of the trip was the Jade Market. If it wasn't
for our lunch plans, I could have stayed there for the whole
day. I don't know if it was the bargaining satisfaction or the
prospect of adding amazing jade and wood jewelry to my
collection, I was a kid at a candy store. My two best finds were
these half wooden, half silver bangles and a little wooden, hand
carves statue that looks like two hands when it's closed and two
lady Buddha's when it's open.
If any of you are food lover I highly
recommend reserving the Chef's Table at the Peninsula hotel in
H.K. It was one of the coolest food experiences I have ever had!
Our table was literally in the middle of the kitchen and we got
a tour of the whole cooking process. Since Camilla and I are
food freaks, we were in heaven. And to top it off there wasn't
one thing we didn't like during the meal.
So I was walking toward my new car the other night and I see two
guys looking at it like two birds poking at a piece of bread. I
came up to the car to see a father and a son who were clearly
interested in the car. So I kind of walked by and said 'nice car
huh' and opened the door. They proceeded to ask me what I was
doing as if I was stealing it. After telling them it was mine
the son became tomato red and started apologizing. The father
looked at me like how the heck is a 20 year old blonde chick
driving this!! Quite amusing!
I have been such an art junky in the last few months! I'm
obsessed with California's own, Chris Gwaltney, Ed Moses, and
such.
On the music front I have been more on the
chilled side recently.....Wilco, David Gray, Angela McCluskey,
and Sarah Bareilles, who's Gravity song is beyond amazing.
My dad get's quote of the week again. He has just learned how to
text which is a miracle by itself, but then you add his English
grammar and it becomes pretty funny, so on Thanksgiving he wrote
to me " happy
thank given love yu "'.
I'm really late for my dance class so I'll
leave you guys for now. Talk to you later!
Maria
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