Coming to you from the Internet terminals at Pacific Coffee Company at the IFC in Hong Kong. Definitely the best Vanilla Latte of the trip so far. [Note from Sherry: This is one of my all time favourite places in Hong Kong... it's right above the Airport Express and so I would hang out here a LOT before heading off on a flight somewhere in South East Asia. They were here in Hong Kong LONG before Starbucks came and I have always thought that their coffee was better.]
Yesterday we held a little get-together of Sherry's friends from when she lived in here in HK. We had food catered in, and it looked like enough for me but of course Sherry didn't think there was enough so we doubled up on everything and naturally there was too much food left at the end. Some of the people I had met already, some I had not, but it was a fun night all around.
The wildest part of Hong Kong are the electric trams. Big, rickety wooden double-decker trams that rattle down the street like an ancient wooden roller-coaster barely staying on the tracks. [He's taken the Star Ferry across the harbour, the MTR subway back , the trams to and from the hotel and the double decker buses. There are so many ways of getting around in Hong Kong - all efficient and easy to pay, using the smart card technology - the Octopus card. We really wish that they would get Dexit sorted in Toronto! If the weather would just get slightly better, I'd really like to take him up to Victoria Peak to see the Hong Kong skyline. The tram going up is literally at a 50 degree angle up! But if we go up now, the fog is so bad, we won't even be able to see the front of our noses! Keep your fingers crossed for us tonight.]
Weather in HK is lousy. We're hoping the fog burns off before we have to leave tomorrow evening. [Originally we were thinking about going to Disney with Sandra and the kids on Monday, but I think that since 1) it's a tiny Disney and can be done in half a day, 2) the price of it is still a whopping HK$300 and 3) the weather is TERRIBLE... no thanks!]
Yesterday we held a little get-together of Sherry's friends from when she lived in here in HK. We had food catered in, and it looked like enough for me but of course Sherry didn't think there was enough so we doubled up on everything and naturally there was too much food left at the end. Some of the people I had met already, some I had not, but it was a fun night all around.
The wildest part of Hong Kong are the electric trams. Big, rickety wooden double-decker trams that rattle down the street like an ancient wooden roller-coaster barely staying on the tracks. [He's taken the Star Ferry across the harbour, the MTR subway back , the trams to and from the hotel and the double decker buses. There are so many ways of getting around in Hong Kong - all efficient and easy to pay, using the smart card technology - the Octopus card. We really wish that they would get Dexit sorted in Toronto! If the weather would just get slightly better, I'd really like to take him up to Victoria Peak to see the Hong Kong skyline. The tram going up is literally at a 50 degree angle up! But if we go up now, the fog is so bad, we won't even be able to see the front of our noses! Keep your fingers crossed for us tonight.]
Weather in HK is lousy. We're hoping the fog burns off before we have to leave tomorrow evening. [Originally we were thinking about going to Disney with Sandra and the kids on Monday, but I think that since 1) it's a tiny Disney and can be done in half a day, 2) the price of it is still a whopping HK$300 and 3) the weather is TERRIBLE... no thanks!]
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