Intro to Hong Kong

We made it to Asia! Holy smokes! We are taking it to the next level, folks.

Getting here is no joke. A non-stop 15-hour flight from San Francisco is certainly the longest stretch we’ve ever spent in an airplane. And then a significant time difference once on the ground. Don’t ask me how many hours. Or in which direction. It’s about flip-flopped, is all I can tell you. And that is taking some adjustment! Some extra adjustment.

So our few Hong Kong days were maybe not as coherent or structured as we normally accomplish. But don’t think we just sat in our hotel room though!

We found staircases and parks. Lots of green spaces, actually, for such a dense and sky-scrapered city. And many people running and exercising in groups. (Despite the intense heat and humidity, which is kind of kicking our butts!) I was tempted to join some of the older ladies in their aerobics, but was informed that would be much too embarrassing.

And did you know, Hong Kong is one of the last major cities (maybe the last?) to use bamboo for their scaffolding. Seriously, skyscrapers covered in scaffolding. Which is bamboo, not metal. Skyscrapers. Bamboo. Incredible!

And we did manage to take the Star Ferry across Victoria Harbor. And navigate the designer shops and malls to the Cup O Noodles museum. Where we got to design our own cups and customize our own ingredients for our very own instant noodle meals! (Very silly. But one of our goals for our visit. Silly is often right up our alley, you know.)

And our hotel was very fun and fancy. Thank you credit card points! We spent some time in the pool (before bed at 5:30) and had a mango and a lobster themed high tea for dinner (before bed at 7:00) and generally tiptoed around the gilded surfaces and flower art.

We get another shot at the city at the end of our trip. When we’re settled in to whatever time zone this is. We plan to be a little more adventurous with food, see the harbor lights (or anything!) after dark, and generally experience it all as living beings instead of zombies.

For now, we move on to Thailand. The adventure continues!