Wednesday 5th June
When we got up this morning Ruy and Karen were not up and after we had had a cup of tea and they still did not appear we wondered what was going on!
When they did surface they were looking very tired!
In the night one of their dogs was ill. Nelson is a golden retriever and is quite old. He is a new addition to their family of 10 dogs. I think he was abandoned by previous owners and being a soft hearted pair Ruy and Karen had given him a home.
They had taken Nelson to the 24 hour vet and were there for some time in the middle of the night. I think they said they left the house at 2.30 and got back at 4.30 am with a significantly lighter bank balance. Nelson however was full of pills and potions and hopefully on the mend.
Ruy and Karen were remarkably sanguine about it all and so our day started!
After breakfast Ruy had to go to a funeral and then into his office in town.
In view of the night they had had we did not make any plans for the day. We stayed at home and caught up with the blog, we read some great books about Shanghai and Hong Kong that they have and I did some more work on my family tree and on the information we have about Granny and her family.
Several queries were solved. Had Granny and Grandpa ever been to Hong Kong? Yes probably on their honeymoon if not before.
The houseboat that I thought was called Loiterer and was in Shanghai was actually called Lontra and was in Hong Kong. This means that the film we have on Granny and Grandpa on the houseboat was probably taken in Hong Kong and not Japan or Shanghai as we thought.
Ruys mother Gloria Barretto was an expert on orchids and was writing a book on Orchids at the time of her death. Karen and Ruy finished the book and published it. It is a beautiful book with wonderful pictures in it.
After a lazy day for us and a well earned quiet day for Karen we went out in the evening. Not for dumplings! Not for noodles! not even for stir fried rice! But for a pizza!!
We picked Ruy up from the bus station and met a couple of their friends at a restaurant they use once a week, And it was great!
Another great day in Hong Kong.
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