Another Week Begins

Well it is the end of Sunday and I (Sonia) am home almost ready to head off to bed. Andrew left this afternoon to head back to Japan. He is away for a full two weeks this time - first to Tokyo, then on to Seoul and then ending up in Shanghai. I am taking Friday off work and flying out to Tokyo for the weekend (the advantage of Andrews's travel is a nice lot of airpoints I can beg from him!). I am then heading up to Shanghai for work the next week, so we will catch up again towards the end of the week. It is looking like the crazy travel schedule Andrew is keeping is going to keep up until around the middle of the year, so I am pleased I took the Prudential job and get to travel to the same countries at least some of the time.

We've also finally made Chinese New Year plans, and have booked tickets to Manila. It is only a two hour flight from here, and it will be good to catch up with Jonathon.... haven't told him we are coming yet, so hope he will be there :-). It has been funny trying to adjust to holiday destinations from HK - all the places we used to go are 3 - 4 hour flights away now so we need to find a new set of local places. It looks like Vietnam might be the place to go for beach holidays so we will have to try that out soon.

We went looking for cars this weekend - Andrew has big dreams for something flash. Time shall tell how high he manages to nudge the budget. I am getting much pressure to agree to another SLK.... what is it about boys and their cars? Surely if it gets you from A to B and keeps you dry and cool that is all that matters?

The other big adventure for the weekend was a trip to the driving range. I actually mangaged to hit some balls - maybe I could get keen on this silly game after all...

Finding a church is still giving us a challenge. We have been a couple of times now to one in the centre of town, and although the preaching is good and the people seem friendly it is rather more happy clappy than we are used to :-). We are trying to decide if we can cope with that or if we need to keep looking. We shall see.

Better finish up. It is about to strike midnight and I just might turn into a pumpkin. I will take the camera to Tokyo and post some pictures of our weekend.