Whew. We made it. 3 flights, 4 inflight movies (including the never Oscar award winning spoof, "Drillbit Taylor"), at about 12:30 AM we walked out of the airport into a wall of steamy heat, threw our bags in a cab and finally acheived sweet sleep in our rock hard bed around 1:20AM. We did manage to get a good nights rest and explored Hong Kong all day. I must say, David has an inate sense of direction. If you are ever dropped in the middle of an unknown world and left to figure things out, you would want him by your side. Today, we took the public BUS to the Stanley market, hiked in a jungle, left some nuts in a temple for some kind of gods, ate Dim Sum in a very hidden, suprisingly swanky restaurant, and walked through some very back alleys gazing on some extermely smelly and wierdly dried seafood - buckets of them - everywhere. ? What they do with these, I doubt I want to know.
Hong Kong is so very metropolitan and upscale. It is very, very clean, and the people all dress so nicely. No stupid T-shirts with offensive sayings were anywhere, and the women especially were all dressed to the nines. Everyone was very nice too, and at one point we were looking at the map and "white" guy stopped to ask if we needed help. After some chit chat, would you believe that his best "mate" (he was Australian) had just moved here from Detroit, Bloomfield Hills -to be exact. Really. We are literally around the world and we run into a guy who knows a guy. It kills me.
The only downside of today was when we called home to talk to Claire and she was just hysterical missing us. I, of course, collasped in sobs on this side of the world and wondered how either of us will make it 15 more days apart from each other, but if we said once, we will say it a million times, she would be more miserable here, being lugged around and her patience tested -and ours.
Tomorrow we meet up with our group and have more sightseeing ahead until Sunday when we fly to Hunan!
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I'm so glad to know that you arrived safe and sound. I wish you enjoy the sightseeing and a bucket of seafood. They are delicious! Looking forward to your next post!
Wenguo
Glad to hear that all went well with the trip there. I can only imagine how hard it must be to be away from Claire. I hope the trip to North Carolina is so fun packed that she has fun for the rest of her trip. I can't wait to hear more about your trip!!
Sitting in Ohio, I feel like I'm on this journey with both of you! I can't wait to read more. And Julie, if you do figure out what they do with that seafood, please don't tell us. Enjoy this time!
Barb
We are so excited to hear that you are in China safely. We are following your journey with great anticipation and sending along many prayers. We can't wait to meet Hope and to see big sister Claire with her!!!
Hong Kong sounds amazing...we have been thinking of you all non stop and trying to imagine what it must be like to be on your journey and we are so grateful that we are able to follow along with you and for that we thank you. You are right though Claire is in a much more child friendly place as opposed to such a fast moving pace without much rest. This too shall pass!
Oh, this is so exciting! I wish I were there with you- Hong Kong sounds amazing. I can't believe you're going to meet Hope in just a couple of days!! Clare loves you guys so much, no wonder she misses you. She'll definitely be happy to see you and her new sister. I can't wait to see those precious pictures of Hope.
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