Grocery Store

Ren Ren Le is a department store with the grocery area all underground

We like this store because it is pretty clean and many items are packaged

Rice

Complete soups in melamine bowls

Picking out a fish

Lots of dried stuff

Lots of baby things!

On our counter at home, this is what we bought today

Ren Ren Le, (Everyone Happy, loosley translated) grocery and department store is one of our favorite places to get food items. Tim and Bev did a early morning shopping run on Saturday. Total time including 15 min. bus ride each way was 2 hours. You can see what we were able to buy for $32.20 US dollar equivalent. We both go as we have to carry it home.

I had to take pics kind of undercover as no photographs are allowed.

Fish Market

This is a typical fishing boat

Our apartment would be a little to the left of this picture

This lone fisherman had made a hat out of umbrella parts and duct tape

Most fish is offloaded from the boats in pans like this which are then drug around the dock area

Buying and Selling fish

Sorting

Weighing

Transaction completed

Taking away the purchase

Ice blocks coming down out of the ice house

Ice being chipped and put into the hull of the fishing boat

I did a little bike ride this Sunday morning and ended up where many of the fishing boats come in to sell there catch. Watched the ice being loaded into trucks and being chipped for the fishing boats. Also watched the dickering and sale of fish to the local buyers as one boat was being offloaded of the weeks catch. Very fun to watch.

Visitors from Afar

A group of tourist in Hong Kong on Friday

Tourist in Macau, Tim, Bev, Karen, Tom, Ben, Karen in Macau on Saturday

Karen and Tom take a break after climbing a pretty good set of stairs

Karen enjoys the Hot and Spicy soup

Ben finds a Casino Girl that is almost as tall as he is but has much better looking legs

Jan and Ben, Jan is my friend Howard's cook, Ben is a little taller

Teppanyaki dinner at a local restaurant in Shekou

In Front of St. Pauls facade (all that is left after the fire) in Macau
More Info on this ruin, click here

On a second floor of a Tram in Hong Kong taking in the sites

Dinner at Angelo's in Hong Kong

We had visitors from the United States. Yahooo...

Tom and Karen and Ben and Karen did a one month China tour. They covered a lot of ground from Bejing to Guilin and finally at the end of the trip spent 5 days with us in Shekou/Shenzhen. We were able to have a great visit with them and show them a little of what our part of the world is like. After doing the mandatory Red Lantern meal and then foot massage the first evening we let them explore while we went back to work. We sent them out for two days via taxi to enjoy some of our fun spots like Splendid China and the Artist Village. They kept coming back early and ending up at the massage place for some reason. We had Friday off due to our conference schedule. So on Friday we went to Hong Kong and on Saturday we took a day trip to Macau. We ate a lot of great meals and had a lot of laughs. They left by bus to Guangzhou to catch their early Monday morning plane back to Seattle. These are a few pics of our time together.

Halloween Fun

Marilynn Monroe

John Lennon and Yoko Ono

Ghandi

Crocodile Dundee and his wife.

Steve Jobs

Hillary Clinton

Well another Halloween has come and gone.
The Chinese do not celebrate Halloween in any way and most are not even aware of what it is. Bev and I did attend a party put on by a previous (last year) staff member. It was lots of fun. Here are pictures of a few of the people that attended. Our host are the John and Yoko couple. So very nice of them to have this party. Thanks Kate we love you.