Hong Kong and Earthquakes

Well, I guess a few things have happened in the couple of weeks since the last entry.

Sonia and I spent last weekend in HK. It's been "Golden Week" in Japan, and this means many people take a few days off, turning two public holiday days into a holiday week. Sonia and I travelled to HK on Friday (Sonia from Bangkok, me from Tokyo), and back on Wednesday. We didn't really have anything specific to do there, more just a chance to get away from the usual places. And an opportunity to catch up with friends and to go back to a favourite restaurant. It was a fairly uneventful trip.

Nothing much to report other than that we stayed at the same hotel that we stayed in when we first arrived. We ended up cooking there a couple of nights (mini-kitchen in the room) after having eaten out at lunch time. Still trying to be good and not put on weight!

Managed to make it back to the church we went to when we were living there. They have two weeks before they move into a new building. Up to now the services have been in various parts of the Hong Kong Exhibition Centre. With the new building, it's a dedicated facility. However, it does mean that each service will be split over two auditoriums on two floors. The music will be live in each auditorium (separate bands on each floor), but one of the places will have the speaker via a big screen showing live video.

We ended up the weekend getting back onto separate flights - one to Bangkok and one to Tokyo.

The second thing that is news is the earthquake in Tokyo earlier this week. I was woken up at 1:45am, not knowing why I woke up or realising what was happening. Then I saw the doors swinging on their hinges and the curtains swinging to and fro. The earthquake went on for a while, and at one point the ironing board fell over onto the floor - it was leaning on the wall behind a door. Eventually I started to wonder whether I should be getting out of bed - although what I was planning to do being the 26th floor, I am not sure!

Having lived in Wellington, I thought that I was used to earthquakes. And in the past 9 months that I've been in Tokyo, I've been through a few more. This must have been the biggest one I have been through - 6.7 on the scale.

Can someone please tell Kyla that she should be putting something on the blog - to keep everyone up to date with what is happening.