Hello from Hong Kong!

Thursday 8:45am HK time:
Tired, cramped, dusty and more than a bit plane-weary we arrived in Hong Kong last night. Peter and Andrea, who are also travelling with us and adopting in Guangxi too are accompanying Debbie and I. Marilyn and her sister Pam aren't due in until late late late Wednesday.

If you can imagine riding in a noisy tin can for 16 hours...being feed every two hours and being backed up against a toilet for the 200 passengers in the plane are at your side every few minutes...you have our experience in a nutshell...

Then we made our way to the hotel on the transit system, which is really quite easy to navigate, if you know where you're going...only one miss-step where we hit Hong Kong island instead of getting off at Kowloon stop...live and learn.

Next was lying prone for a few hours on the hotel bed and enjoying a short rest before hitting the streets of Hong Kong...siteseeing the small street vendors, pharmacies, restaurants and shops within several streets of the hotel.

We settled for dinner at the "Golden Horse Restaurant" although we stayed away from equine fare, we choose by pictures our meals and enjoyed a cup of tea...dinner was fantastic and hot... fresh from the kitchen which we could see from our seats....after stuffing ourselves for barely the price of a coffee at home, we headed back to the hotel for a well deserved sleep. Debbie drank a cup of tea in our room but I was out before she took the tea bag out of her cup.

Today is SHOPPING! Which I think is a national pasttime here...more later.
Michelle