Apartment Found

We found a place to live after a day and a half of searching. The link below is basically where we will be staying. The building is the same, but it's a different unit. The view from the apartment is similar to the first picture in this link. http://www.squarefoot.com.hk/property/10018598 

It is a 4-bedroom (the bedrooms are very small) 2-bath place on the 48th floor. It is located in Jardine's Lookout, which is a quieter neighborhood in Hong Kong, which Trig will hopefully appreciate. It's a 15 min walk for Drew to work, and is close to Victoria Park. Apparently not a single park in Hong Kong allows dogs. Completely opposite from the U.S. where parks are overrun by them. Apparently a lot of people here are scared of dogs and think they're messy, therefore, no dogs allowed. So Trig is going to have to get used to peeing on cement. On the south side of the island, like in Aberdeen, there is more room for them. 

I need some advice on how dogs best function in apartments. Should I expect to be running up and down the elevator with him 5 times a day? Or should we pee pad train him? 

A few things were very interesting while we were looking at all of these apartments. 1) None of them had dishwashers, :( but they had wine chillers 2) None had closets, and some had built in wardrobes. Some had absolutely no storage space whatsoever. Where do people hang up their clothes you might be asking? The answer is on their terraces. Seems to be common practice. Luckily, the place we found has a lot of built-ins, so storage shouldn't be a problem. 3) All the apartments had maids rooms. Aka a closet with a disgusting, small bathroom. I can't believe Hong Kongers allow their maids (which are mostly Filipino) to live in such small spaces. The rooms were about 5ft x 4ft. Makes me sad. Our maids bathroom will be Trig's shower room and pee pad room if we decide to train him so. And we'll probably use the maids bedroom for bike storage. 

The before mentioned walk to Victoria Park was also interesting. They were having a fair there to sell things for the Chinese New Year coming up. One half of the fair was kids' toys, mostly stuffed animals, balloons, pinwheels, and more junk. I've decided the Asian cartoons with bright block colors and perfectly round faces freak me out. If you've read Cloud Atlas, you know what I mean. The second half of the fair was all flowers. But the funny thing was, all 50 of the booths were selling exactly the same stuff. 1) Kumquat trees (made me think of you Megan!), purple orchids, daffodils,  and these pink flowered trees. Every store in the city seems to have some combination of these flowers and trees in the building. Apparently the kumquat trees make you lucky. But why do you need 50 booths all selling the same stuff? Don't they understand economics? I'm going to set up a booth and sell roses. But, I probably wouldn't sell a single one, because they aren't lucky. 

Today, Drew and I are talking to a few Hong Kong based pet relocation companies. Hopefully one of them will be experts on the topic. Then, Drew works all day Thurs and Fri, so I will probably do more site seeing. Maybe take a bus tour around the city.