Shopping in HK

Date: November 14, 2014

Mood: Blah

Weather: Cool and Overcast

Listening to: Cinderella by Steven Curtis Chapman

Reading: Curtsies & Conspiracies by Gail Carriger

Yesterday was a go non-stop day, and by the time I actually had a chance to sit down and write about it I was too tired. Today's been the opposite- a completely slow and lazy day. I slept in, went to lunch at the canteen, and then vegged all afternoon and evening watching movies and attempting to grade exams. I woke up feeling rather like crap today though, so I have a good excuse for my laziness. This one time anyways.

Hong Kong was fun yesterday. Mil #2 and I went out for breakfast and shopping in the morning. It's the first time we've gone out just the two of us without the kids, and it was really nice. She took me to this little hole in the wall resale shop she recently discovered in Sheung Shui. It's literally the size of a large walk-in closet, but they had a ton of stuff packed in there. It was mostly clothes with a few odds and ends tossed in. I picked up a pair of pants and a shirt for monkeygirl #2. I'm crossing my fingers the shirt fits her cause it's an all but brand new Draculaura t-shirt. Monkeygirl #2 adores Draculaura, so it was a natural decision to consider it a purchase for her. I'm a little worried though that it's too small or almost. Worst comes to worst and it will fit monkeygirl #1 because she's built differently than her sister, but sister will be most put out if her new shirt ends up getting passed along to big sister. Due to this I haven't yet figured out how to test the shirt. I guess I'm just gonna have to suck it up and go at it head first. Hopefully it fits, and if it doesn't we will deal with that then.

In the afternoon hubby, the monkeygirls, and I set out towards the other end of Hong Kong to do some browsing and shopping. He was looking at video cameras and I was looking to get my ipad fixed. Found a shop in the computer center that would fix it, but they wanted $700HK (approx $100US)!! My ipad isn't even 2 years old and everything else works perfectly on it which means I really don't want to spend nearly 1/3-1/2 the price of new one just to fix a button. Since I can still use the on screen touch button I'm delaying the repair until we can see if another less expensive shop can be located. If not then it's time to debate whether or not I want to plan to just shell out the cash and fix my current pad or save up to just buy a brand new model with a larger storage capacity and sell my current one. Too many decisions right now. I think I'll wait for the holidays to pass and then revisit this issue then.

While the ipad repair trip was a bust, I was successful in picking up a new ipad charge cable and cord for my Beats. Yay me. Also the girls and I found a lovely book shop in mall in TST. We were browsing while hubby was across the hall investigating the camcorder options, and before I knew it my monkeys were drooling over books- in English. It's hard for this bookworm to deny the call of book buying appeal, especially when they are few and far in between. That's why I walked out of the store $480HK lighter. That's about $61.92US, a LOT for 3 books. But monkeygirl #2 got two new My Little Pony chapter books, one a brand new hardcover. Monkeygirl #1 actually spent part of her money on her purchase because I didn't have enough HK money on me, and she got the new 2015 Guinness World Book of Records hardback. She was beside herself excited with her decision because she's been wanting one of these GWBR books for a few years. So, I'm happy with the money spent. We would have spent a little let in the States, maybe. But since finding books here isn't as easy and we rarely buy print books over here, it was a worthwhile expense in my book. Then we came home and I had to get online and get monkeygirl #1 the new Diary of a Wimpy kid book because she also discovered and started reading it at the store, but she has the rest of them on her Kindle so wanted this one in the same format. I gotta say, I love seeing my monkeygirls get excited over books. Ahh one of life's goals accomplished.

All in all, it was a good trip to HK, even though it was a quick one-nighter. And today has been lack luster due to my not feeling tip top, but here we are. It's been a good mini-break from classes. Tomorrow and Sunday will need to be heavily dedicated to grading if we're going to have all our exams scored and ready to turn in and hand out Monday.