Millions of Monkeys!

We LOVE Hong Kong. We are leaving today to go back to Thailand, and are sad to leave this beautiful place, as well as our dear friend, Emily.

The pictures below are of us at the jade and pearl market. Laura is with Mei - the lady who supplies the Colonial Relief Society girls with all of their pearls...small world! There is also a picture of the three of us at a dessert cafe. The picture at the bottom is of the Young Single Adults in Emily's ward. We took a hike up a mountain to Lion's Rock, where we saw a magnificent view of the city.

Church was amazing with these same (and more) people. Today in Sunday School we had people from the Phillipines, Hong Kong, Canada, Korea, NYC, California, Utah, Virginia, Nepal, South Africa, India, Indonesia, Taiwan, Spain and Nigeria! 2 Nephi 31:3 was quoted, which seemed applicable!

Our FAVORITE though would have to be the monkeys. After hiking, we headed over to Monkey Mountains where we were told that we would see numerous of monkeys. We weren't disappointed. As soon as we got off the bus, we notice that a "herd" of them was crossing the overpass to come to the other side of the street that we were on. We walked on a footpath, and literally saw monkeys EVERYWHERE. Some would follow us, which made Laura sort of nervous. This is the reason we don't have many good pictures - because Denise's camera died, and Laura was carrying a largish stick most of the time(to protect Denise, and the others of course.) We LOVED them. A lot were carrying babies on their backs, or underneath their stomachs. A few were eating lollipops, that other people on the path had given them.

The most amusing monkey incident occurred though, on the other hike when we saw a few monkeys as well. A Chinese man came hiking up the trail carrying a portable boom box device that was blaring Chinese opera music. He saw us watching the monkeys and pulled out a little slingshot, gave us a sly grin, and shot the sling shot in the direction of the monkey. We felt bad for the monkey who scampered off, but found the whole incident to be rather amusing!

Currently Denise is devising a way that we can take one on the plane with us back home for a pet. We have some Tylenol PM, so that just might do the trick...