Street Burgers

This is my name for the hamburgers we ate tonight.  It was at a little hamburger joint that is literally just a few stools on the side of the street.  It's on Hollywood Road, which is full of Chinese antique stores, so it is quite out of place!

Anyway we decided to eat there just for something different, because we tend to normally eat at our favourite few restaurants all the time.  It's not often I eat burgers over here, there are far too many other choices!

And one for the WOPS - although I think Ally might be the only WOP to be still reading this blog.  Ally would remember the big bag of goodies they gave me before I came to Hong Kong - lots of Aussie stuff like tattoos, pencils, a scarf, stickers etc etc.  They made me promise to bring it all over and use it.  It took me 18 months but I finally dug out the pack of cards and used them on the weekend for a cards night.  Thanks WOPS!

Hospital visit

Poor Chris was really sick last week and I ended up taking him to the hospital, where he stayed for a week.  It was a good hospital and they took great care of him, and it was conveniently just a 10 minute walk from school! 

It was a vegetarian, caffeine-free hospital and their meals were quite nice!  Chris C and I ate dinner there a couple of times while visiting - and as you can see Chris C was very good at helping Chris D finish his dinner :-)

It is the first completely round hospital I've ever seen, and as you can see it was undergoing major renovations.

All part of the adventure - my first and hopefully last hospital visit!

Hong Kong taxis

I have a love/hate relationship with the taxis.  I love that it is so easy to get one - I just step outside my door, wave my hand and a little red taxi will pull up.  And I love that they are so much cheaper than back home - which is lucky since I get one to and from school every day.

But I hate that nearly every morning the taxis stink of cigarette smoke, and I hate the jerky way they are driven - imagine tapping your accelerator foot in time to music and you'll get an idea of what I mean.  So many drivers do it, and it's really not nice since the road to school is as winding as the Brown or Clyde Mountain.

Anyway HK taxi drivers all seem to love their phones and GPS's, some more than others.  I think I counted 6 in this taxi.

And I was wondering on Friday where my lovely view went!  I normally have a great view of the Happy Valley racecourse, even when it is smoggy.  But on Friday the clouds rolled in and the entire city disappeared.  For a comparison there is a beautiful sunny day photo in the August post called Library Photos. 

Everyone is just hoping that this construction site across the road isn't going to be too tall when it is finally finished.