Day 1

The birds sound different here. This statement is probably obvious to you, but you dont really realize it until you're here. When you wake up, you hear the same cluster of birds every morning. It was weird to wake up and hear different birds.

We had cereal for breakfast. In case you don't know how to eat cereal, there are directions:

We got up around 5:30. My dad went to work at 6. We didn't do much until lunch time. Since we only had cereal and eggs, we had to go buy food.

We wandered up and down Main Street for a bit. We really didn't have a clue of what was expensive or not. We were given $300 Hong Kong dollars which is about $45 American dollars. We ate beef at a sea food restaurant. 

Avery and I had this. Beef with seasonal vegetables. I didn't get a picture of Greyson's, but he got the same thing except with noodles.

At the restaurant. We drank our pop with straws. You always drink beverages with straws here  because you never know where the can was before it was delivered to you.

This is the name of the restaurant. The truth is that I really took this photo so you could see the cute little kite creatures hanging in the air.

Here are some plants and things around the island. 

Tree roots growing over cement by the road.

Stairs leading up to our house. These are only about 1/6 of the stairs we have to take to the house. It is on top of a big hill.

Hibiscus.

A view walking down to Main Street.

Plants on steroids.

The view from our balcony.

The view from the other side of our balcony.

A lizard outside our door.

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We ate dinner around 8.

We had these chocolate burgers for dessert.

Avery cooked dinner for us. Here she is wilting the lettuce. 

The wilting lettuce. This particular kind of lettuce must be cooked before eating because it has chemicals on it from  when they grew it. We didn't like it.

Dinner. It was lemon butter chicken, lettuce, and pasta with herbs. Everything was good except for the lettuce.

Eating at the table.

I'm sorry about all the food pictures. I really love food and think its delicious, so I take a lot of pictures of it. The chicken was very good.

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We were all able to fight the jet lag and went to bed at 9:30. Yay!