Day 149 – Hong Kong

After breakfast, we got online so that we could talk with the kids about how do deal with Tinkerbelle’s death and also, we got word of my brother, Lowell, being close to death.  Two hard blows in 24 hours have taken its toll on me emotionally and I have had a hard time today with crying on and off and being sad. 

We finally decided to go to the market that was close to the hotel and see about getting some sunglasses for me (I forgot them in Ji’nan, not realizing how much sun we would be in here in south China.)  We did find a pair, but we were being accosted on all sides from the venders and neither of us were in the mood for it, so we just decided to go back to the hotel and pick up some KFC lunches to eat when we got there before the bus picked us up.

 

The hotel we stayed at in Shenzhen, had this parking garage.  You moved the cars around on the different levels until you could get the one you wanted down to the open space.  It was a marvel!

The bus ride to the immigration exchange was about an hour long.  Then we had to put in our departure papers from Chine and walk “across the border” into Hong Kong and get a new paper approved to go into Hong Kong.  That took about 45 minutes or so.  The lines were long, but it all went fairly smooth. 

Another hour back on the bus took us to Hong Kong.  We were awed by the buildings.  After checking in at the hotel, we found out how to get some Hong Kong dollars and then met up with some of the other people from Ji’nan and went to the Outback Steak House for dinner.  We all want a break from Chinese food for a few days.  Had a fun dinner, but the waiter forgot to bring most of us our salads.  We had to remind him three times to bring our salad to us! 

We had to be back at the hotel for a meeting at 6:30 p.m. with the other BYU China teachers so that we could get questions answered about what the agenda would be for the next three days here in Hong Kong. 

Downtown Hong Kong.  Lights galore!

Not the best picture of the laser light show, but the best I could get with my little camera.

After the meeting, we went to the laser light show that they do every evening in the buildings across the river in downtown Hong Kong.  We are staying in Kowloon.  When the light show was over, we headed back to the hotel and we met some of the group that had just come back from Sanya. They had flight delays and late buses and practically no food all day because of it.  We helped them find an ATM so they could get some Hong Kong dollars and then told them where the restaurants were.