I’ve talked and chatted with Muse. Her and all the animals are alive and well after their grueling trip halfway around the world. It seems that no one messed their cages this time through which is very surprising. Two of the three we sent to Hong Kong were disgusting messes when we received them. Muse got lucky on that one. So did the importer I suppose.
Muse is suffering from some jetlag as she chatted with me at what would have been 1:30am back in the States. The dogs are crashed and the cats are off exploring the new environment. If that’s the worst of it all then we couldn’t ask for more.
I imagine she will be updating her site pretty soon to tell everyone all about it.
I dropped Muse off with her luggage and waited for her at the bus stop to the airport. I put her bags on the bus when it arrived. I asked her for the fifth time if she had her passport and drivers license. I waited by the bus and watched as it pulled away.
Now I’m sitting here with the pets waiting for the exporter to arrive. They are late. Soon though, they will all be gone.
I’m very sad.
EDIT——
I’m back from taking the dogs and cats to the airport. I don’t know how Muse did it before. They were so scared and pitiful I actually was crying when they put their cages in the air-conditioned live animal room. There were two small white dogs in crates in the room already. They were excited to see people. Our animals looked and acted like they were being sentenced to their deaths. They were that pitiful.
Now I’m even more sad….
It’s a fact that Japanese people speaking English often confuse the letter L with the letter R and sometimes the other way around too. Some people would call that Engrish. But not often do I get to see it in writing.
These Melon Jelly Chocolates were available in a gift shop in Narita International Airport in Japan outside of Tokyo. Notice that it’s not actually jelly but jerry. Perhaps the order of the words could be changed around a bit too. Ah well, I guess you can’t spell check everything.
I believe Muse has already let the kitteh out of the bag, so to speak, but we will be coming home to St. Louis this year. Muse will be leaving Hong Kong before me to get the pets all sorted and safe. I was the first to arrive between us and I’ll be the last to leave. I suppose I should take some comfort in that I’ll get to live here in Hong Kong for just a bit longer but I also remember the loneliness of my first month here. But that was a long time ago now and I’m no longer a stranger in a strange land with no idea of what to do/where to go/what to eat. I no longer need to subsist on ham sandwiches and cans of soup. Although I may just because.
Now, when the time comes, I’ll probably spend my free time leisurely walking the street markets and shopping malls without the worry of wasting Muse’s time or needing to feed or walk the dogs. Maybe I’ll go directly from the office to a local bar with people from work and see what the night life is like before I leave. Maybe I’ll go for a hike without worrying about time constraints or anything but my own ability. Or maybe I’ll just sit in front of the computer and play World of Warcraft all night. It’s hard to say.
Actually when I say we will be coming home this year that makes it sound like something that will be happening at some far point in the future. But really it’s nothing like that. Muse may be leaving in a month or less. I won’t be here any longer than mid-August. It’s scary close to those dates already. By the end of August we will be back in the United States of America and trying to figure out life once more. This time with a baby on the way.
When we moved we did so on short notice and also threw in our wedding because it wasn’t a stressful enough experience. Now with a baby coming, I see now that we just really like to complicate things. I can offer no other explanation. We sold our house and our cars and most of the rest of the stuff we didn’t ship to Hong Kong. So add in another layer of sphincter-clenching in that we have a baby coming and we need to buy a house and at least one car but really we need two and baby stuff and furniture and Oh My Gawd what are we insane?
Yes. Yes we are. Nice to meet you.
Muse has already posted about our trip to see the Pink Dolphins so I’m just going to post a couple of the pictures I got from the trip. The boat ride was taken with the Hong Kong Dolphinwatch tour.
Like Muse said, the young dolphins are actually grey and they become pink as they reach adulthood. We got to see a few bright pink adults but they were always farther out and not as curious as the young ones. They’ve probably learned some hard lessons. So that made the adults pretty hard to snap pictures of.
At least we got to see them though. That’s the important thing.
July 2, 2008 5:05 pm | 
