For the foreseeable future, today was going to be the last day for us to go out and sight-see because we plan on taking it easy on Sunday, and I start work on Monday. Also, it’s supposed to rain on Sunday — which is nice, because it hasn’t rained on us yet. For more pictures from today, click on the picture of the temple at the top of this post.

We wanted to see some local things or some culture, so we decided we’d see Wong Tai Sin, a famous Taoist temple in Hong Kong.

On the way there, we stopped in Mong Kok to see if I could get my six bucks back from the guy who sold me a non-working photo card reader. He hemmed and hawed and only gave me another one, not my money back. I asked if this one wouldn’t work either. He just shooed me away. No one who worked in the store would then look at me, so I stepped out of the store and told people who were about to enter that junk was sold there. I did this for about five minutes and that sent lots of people away and lots of yelling in Chinese from inside the shop! Ha, ha.

As a side note, when I got home, I checked, and both my flash drive and card reader worked; at least for now . . .

Stepping out of the subway MTR station, we could see the Wong Tai Sin temple. There were lots of people there buying incense sticks that they could burn and then request things from the temple, in search of luck and prosperity. In a way, it was sad that so many people can believe in this hocus-pocus. I’m sure they would feel the same about me and my beliefs, or at least until they’ve read: I don’t have enough faith to ben an atheist. This book uses logic to basically prove Christianity as true, or at least the best alternative to other religions. There are lots of pictures from today that can be seen by clicking the picture of the temple up top.

Later on, we took the MTR down to the Science Museum and Art Museum, but neither had interesting exhibits. The Science museum had an IMAX theater, but on Saturdays, the shows are only showed in Cantonese. So, instead we headed over to the Hong Kong Clock Tower and water front.

Finally, we ate in downtown Tsim Sha Tsui, a part of Kowloon, at the Spaghetti House. It was good to eat some pasta with seafood, mushroom, and sun-dried tomatoes. The air conditioning was great and the view was very nice. We were up on the second floor of a downtown building and could look down on the busy sidewalks and shops. We didn’t walk as much today and made better use of the MTR, but we were still tired when we got back home.

Once in the room, we were able to video chat with Laura’s sister, brother-in-law, and their kids. It’s fun to see people on the computer screen, live. Having the Vonage is nice and having iChat is great too. Of course, nothing is as good as the real thing, but that will have to wait several more months.

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