Hong Kong

Planes, trains, subways, buses, double decker buses, ferries, cable cars-we used every form of transportation available while in Hong Kong this past week. (23rd-29th) Our main reason for going was because our visas expired and we had to leave the country and Hong Kong is considered out of China. So, we went there to apply for new visas which take 5 days to get. The bad news is, that they would only give us visas for 30 more days, so we are not real sure what will happen in 30 days. Our prayer is that they will allow us to renew them from Beijing the end of October for 30 more days, and then when we go back to the US in December, we can just apply for new visas from there-it is easier to get longer visas from your home country. I guess if they don't allow us to renew from Beijing, we will have to make another trip to Hong Kong in 30 days.

Anyway, since we had to go to Hong Kong we decided to make a much needed vacation out of it. We had a nice time, even though the first couple days were pretty rainy. After that it cleared up and was very hot. So, we did a lot of swimming, which was a great. Alyson and Austin have really become quite the little swimmers. There is also a Disney land in Hong Kong so we went to that one day as well. Please continue to pray that we get our visas worked out.

Below are some pictures from our Hong Kong trip.