Monday, November 05, 2007

Back in Hong Kong

Family,

Today I went to a Hong Kong dentist to help with pain in one tooth - learned the tooth has died and is infected and I need a root canal. He drilled out the decay, but did not complete a root canal - recommended I get that done when I return to the US - put on a temporary filling and gave me pain and antibiotic prescriptions . The bill was $42 US.

The other great adventure of the day was a trip to the tailor to pick up my new suit and 5 shirts custom made. They are not bad. I also rode the trolley a few miles each way to just see the city a bit, stopped at the Western Market where I spied a German Baeckerei and picked up some bread and pastries and some Kiwi fruit drink. I took trams and buses and subway to get home.

Meanwhile, Kaaren walked down to the beach by the apartment and painted. It is a nice painting of the scene of the coast line from the beach.

We laid out our haul from Beijing - it covered the bed. We will also repack our vase before checking it on the plane again.

The bustle and clang of Hong Kong was not welcome today. Beijing is much quieter and larger, of course. I needed some rest from the pain I have been dealing with.

This evening Mark and Elaine and Kaaren and I went to dinner in Stanley Park - the upscale community where they live. Kaaren ordered shark, Elaine and I ordered African chicken, and Mark ate orange roughy. Then we went to the grocery store and bought their groceries for the next week or so. Groceries here are much more expensive than at home. But we see things from all over the world, too. Very interesting.

I am missing our wonderful home in West Linn. This is a very busy place. We think we will do some hiking in the next day or so.

Elaine pointed out to me that I have not sent out pictures of our walk on the Great Wall. (Well, three, I think). So I uploaded too many to the Flickr site. Go to PixtonFamily.com (which, by the way, Skye, is very slow to load and actually fails to load completely for me and for Elaine's computer - have you loaded it up with too much stuff?) and click on the photos at the top to be routed to the Flickr site. click on Tom Pixton's photostream and you will be taken to the various albums I have created to organize these too many photos. Enjoy

Now I'm going to try to sleep.

love, Dad

1 comment:

Skye said...

Wow. Was it scary going to a Hong Kong dentist or was it totally modern and unscary but cool because it was cheap? I get scared enough about dentists here in the U.S. that I would be nervous about going in another country.