Flowers and Dragon's Back

About five days before my husband and I went to Japan, he came home with these, probably to make me feel better about loosing a frisbee in the ocean (see below):

I love roses, and I especially love simple flower bouquets - so these were perfect.  I always enjoy getting flowers, but am always sad that I can't have them longer. Usually you get about 5 days, if you treat them well.  In Hong Kong you get about three days.  I hate fake flowers, so I will never go that route, but I wish there was a way to have flowers longer.  My husband once said should take a picture.  So I have for every set of flowers I receive. When I am having a not so great day, I will open the file with the flowers and enjoy them in photo form.  (Note to Husband: this does not mean that you can now just give me photos of flowers)

Also before we went away, we hiked with a group of friends over the Dragon's Back.  A pretty famous hike in Hong Kong that has stunning views.  We met up around lunch with our friends, and then went hiking.  The hike ends near a bus stop, and you can hop on a bus that goes to the beach.  It is a great finish to a hike like this, lying in sand or swimming to cool down.  After we had all cooled down we went for Thai food, which was very delicious. All in all it was a great day out with my Hong Kong roleplaying group - and since we rarely go out into the sunshine - it was probably good for us as well.

However, for me it had one hitch.  After eating at the Thai place we then headed to another near by beach to play frisbee.  The friend who organised this whole hike and food thing had also wanted to try out his new frisbees he got from the US while travelling.  This would have been a perfect end to a perfect day had I not thrown one of his brand new frisbees right into the deep part of the ocean. Note - plastic Aerobee frisbees DO NOT float!  What I wouldn't have given for a $5 nerf frisbee at that moment! It went flying straight into the deep part of the shore, like I believed for some reason there was a Kraken there ready to catch it and throw it back - there wasn't a Kracken - stupid reality!  

I then felt terrible and got into the water with all my clothes on (since I didn't have a swim suit with me) and began driving for the frisbee.  Even my husband got in the water and tried to help (he at least had a swim suit) but alas it was useless.  The brand new frisbee gone - and I felt horrible for ruining the whole day.  I melancholically got on the bus to go home and told my friend I would buy him a new one.  Which as it happens has just arrived in the post yesterday (yeah for international online shops!).  But before I could be happy about this, another friend who was there and laughing at me - posted this on Facebook.  

What great friends I have!  It took a day or so - but truly this made me laugh and feel better - so I do have great friends! So maybe in retrospect the day wasn't so ruined.