Hello, Friend

We’ve had our first visitor from home. Our friend from church, David Breyette was in Hong Kong last weekend on his way to China for business.

It was really good seeing somebody from home and getting caught up on news from church.

Sunday, David was able to join us for church on the island. Afterward we headed to a touristy area of Hong Kong, took in a few sites, and had lunch. After a full day, we headed back to David’s hotel because he said he had something in his hotel room he needed to give us.

We waited in the lobby wondering what it could be. A few minutes later, David re-emerged with a full grocery bag. First there were some cards, letters, and a few small gifts for the girls from their friends back at church. Then there was some make-up that Julie had asked a friend to send along with David.

But for me the most exciting item in the bag was the last item to be pulled from the bag. David had brought not one, not two, not three, but six boxes of Trader Joe’s peppermint-filled JoJo cookies. They are only available in the weeks before the holidays. Some little birdie –I have no idea whom- must have whispered in his wife Melissa’s ear.

Late last winter, as the Hong Kong opportunity was coming together, the girls said that one of the things they would miss would be Trader Joe’s peppermint-filled JoJo cookies at the holidays. Christmas without snow we can handle. But it just wouldn’t seem like the holidays without peppermint JoJos.

Thank you Melissa.

Anybody planning on coming to Hong Kong in the near future because I am really jonesing for some corn fritters from the Texan Bar-B-Q on Main Street in Algonquin two block from the river.

-Jack