Well September has been a busy month for Fiona and I, but we are almost through it.  Last weekend our landlords kindly invited us to spend the weekend with them in a beautiful company condo on the beach in Pattaya.  We have a few interesting photos from that trip that I will add to our gallery when I get the chance.  Today was officially Fiona’s last day at the university and she had a nice send-off from her students who gave her various gifts in appreciation of her excellent teaching.  Tomorrow Fiona leaves for Hanoi, Vietnam for a much deserved break and a chance to renew her visa for our last month in Thailand.

My parents, John and Joan, will be visiting us in Bangkok on Monday next week.  They flew into Hong Kong yesterday and just sent me this update:

We are here in Hong Kong, safe and sound after a long 13 and a half hour flight.  Actually, the flight went very well since the plane was only about half full and we each had 2 seats to ourselves. We’re getting adjusted to H.K. time by trying to get to sleep at the regular times here.  That meant being up for more than 24 hours yesterday.  This morning we were wide awake at 3 am.  Today, we went on an all-day tour of Hong Kong.  It was very good, so informative and we saw a lot of very interesting sights.  Our tour even included lunch.  Hong Kong is an amazing place–so many people and traffic all the time.  It is one of the most densely populated cities in the world with over 7 million people living in 1100 square kilometres.  The stores are open until 11 or 12 at night so we have been out exploring the markets in the evenings.  We took a lot of photos and movies today.

Tomorrow we are planning to do some exploring on our own, doing some walking in Kowloon, and taking the Star Ferry to Hong Kong Island. 

It has been very warm here about 34 degrees today with very high humidity.

That’s all for now, hopefully there will be more updates in October.

-Mike