I wake in ache, but my spirit is renewed. There is no way in hell I am going to sit in this apartment crippled by unknowing. We are going to the peak to observe our surroundings. I look up the location of the peak tram and we head out, I now have my own blue powerful dot. The way is steep and our breathing labored. The blue dot moves farther from our target, we reverse and make our way down the slope this time. Its all looking on course then we see the si...

Before leaving New Zealand I got a bit of a jolt. My husband, and major proponent of being in Hong Kong over crazy Chinese New Year time, would be accompanying the girls and I to the Hong Kong then leaving for Europe less than 24 hours later. Instead of 1 week absent as planned, he will be gone for 3 weeks- pretty much the whole Hong Kong stay aside from a day at the end. Hong Kong on my own with 3 kids, not knowing a soul…it will be alright, it's a wester...