28 hours and counting! And what we didn't eat for dinner!

Greetings from Hong Kong Well, here we are in this city of seven million people trying to stay awake to watch the fireworks over Victoria Harbour from our 34th floor hotel room...ready for some zzzz's really! We heard that there will be 400000 people gathered outside tonight and we're definitely not up for that. We really feel like foreigners here since we definitely stand out in the crowd! Now our Chinese dinner was really interesting...guess what we didn't eat? We took a pass on the shredded snake soup, the fish intestines, the goose eggs, the jelly fish stew, etc. The prawns were good and so was the BBQ suckling pig. Tomorrow we will ride the tram and the famous star ferry to the "other side" Kowloon. Maybe some high tea at the Peninsula hotel. More later Linda

Heading out to Hong Kong

Well today was kind of a disaster.  We are all packed and ready to head to the airport tomorrow (Thursday Dec 29) and, our furnace conked out.  It turned out our oil tank was frozen and needed to be thawed out. That took all day and finally, after a few service calls, it seems to be working.  Glad it happened today instead of tomorrow when we are gone.  The kittens would have been catsickles!  Hopefully this problem is resolved.    Talk to you all later.

Dave Brouillette

Getting Ready to go

The Bracebridge and Gravenhurst Rotary Clubs are heading to Cambodia to distribute bicycles to rural school children.  A very succesful fundraising campaign raised enough funds to cover the purchase of 1,000 new bicycles.  These will be distributed during the month of January commencing on January 4, 2012.

The team members include Dave and Linda Brouillette, Jan and Peter Rickard, Steve and Janice Hayhurst, Walter and Donna Ried, Keith and Susan Montgomery, Michaela Korb, Rick and Cheryl Hunter, Ruth Bell Towns, Ron and Margaret Walton and field coordinator - Lisa McCoy.  Special guests also include Stephanie Boag and Naomi Hickey-Humble from Australia.

Everyone has been getting ready - obtaining visa's, collecting supplies to donate etc.  

Assuming we will have internet access we hope to keep updating this blog as we proceed through our adventure.

Dave Brouillette