Ireland/China 2025, continuing (25)

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Fifteenth day in China – July 5 Saturday

I slept in till past 9:00AM, Susan was already up. We had an uneventful breakfast, waiting for news of when Mei‑li and Ruby would return from the hospital.

About 10:30 I walked a few blocks to the small grocery store I became familiar with a couple of years ago, bought various drinks for us (diet Coke for me, Sprite and orange juice for Susan), carried them back to the apartment in a backpack.

At 11:25, Kevin texted us they were bringing Ruby home from the hospital. We texted inquiries about visiting, and he replied that 4:00 or 5:00PM would be better, after they’d had time to settle in (and for Mei‑li to rest).

About 2:15PM, Kevin and Amber showed up at our door to visit for a while. During part of that time, I led a four-person Rosary (the most of my family I’ve been able to get together at once for that). Also, I measured Amber against the wall, and established that she’s 4'10¾".

They headed back to rejoin Mei‑li, and after a bit Kevin sent word that Mei‑li had rested enough that we could come over. He cautioned us about the weather, however — a typhoon is sitting a few hundred kilometers from Hong Kong, which of course is right across the bay from us, and heavy rain wouldn’t be at all unlikely under those circumstances — and when Susan and I started off in that direction, there was loud thunder just as we got outside, and the wind picked up, and we decided it was a better idea to go back. As far as I could tell, nothing came of it, but it wasn’t a chance we wanted to take.

By arrangement with Kevin, he came over a little after 7:00PM, and the pizza he’d ordered for us arrived by 7:30. We had that for our supper and visited and talked, and he said he was positive Mei‑li wouldn’t be going to Mass tomorrow and he probably wasn’t, either, but he’d arrange a cab for Susan and me if we wanted; we said we could skip a single Sunday, so that wasn’t necessary.

I don’t remember for sure when he said goodnight to us and headed on back. Susan went on to bed just before 10:00PM; I took care of a few more things before it was time to prepare for bed myself.