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Saturday, July 3, 2010

Troubs in Hong Kong

Tonight, Kristin's bag was stolen from the waterfront. We are dealing with the repercussions of this, canceling cards and making claims against our stuff that was involved in the heist. I am out a camera and Kristin has one less ipod. We also had all of our Hong Kong dollars taken. Great night. Nope. Here is a picture of a bird that I took today in Hong Kong Park. I may update later once we are done making phone calls, but this is unlikely.

Friday, July 2, 2010

Travel Day - Cambodia to Hong Kong

Our meal last night at a Cambodian restaurant. They offered us snake, goat, roo, and ostrich. We ordered chicken because we were. Ryan ordered big shrimps.

Our day began at 6:30am. We flew from Siem Reap to Kuala Lumpur and than from Kuala Lumpur to Hong Kong. It was a 12 hour travel day. Once in Hong Kong, Ryan was doublefisting Coke Zeros.

Lucky for us, we checked in at the ultra luxurious W Hong Kong which was a welcome change of pace.

Our bathroom

Our shower which floods like crazy

Ryan and Meagan discussing plans. Kristin staring out the window.

Our lobby on the 37th floor

The pool on the 75th floor

Back in Hong Kong, walking between giants

We roamed the streets searching for the ladies market

Hong Kong, like most huge cities, does not sleep, so we did not have much trouble grabbing a bite at 11

Neon signs everywhere

Furmonster of the day, out of focus Hong Kong weirdo

We walked by a really crowded noodle shop, and decided it would probably be a good idea.

Ryan and Meagan having a laugh while sharing some noodles

These guys did fine work. Our noodles were great

Beef Brisket with noodles

Egg noodles

Regular Noodles

cat at the bookstore

We got an ice cream at a Mcdonalds, opting out of the taro pie

Lots more from Hong Kong tomorrow

The girls bough Loubs at the Ladies Market

Tuesday, July 28, 2009

We are home!

After an exhausting day through the airports of Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Los Angeles; we finally arrived home in Dallas. We were greeted at the airport by our driver and confidant, Monsieur Lou (pictured below). He was dapper as always.

We spent our last day in Hong Kong shopping in the Kowloon area. We hit up the ladies market, temple street night market, jade market, and a bunch of malls. It was a great way to cap off the trip. We both realized how much we love Hong Kong. and can definitely see an extended stay there in the near future. Kristin and I are both open to suggestions for our next big trip, which will take place at some point in the first half of 2010. We are leaning towards a road trip and camping adventure through Australia, but anything is possible. Keep checking the blog, we are planning a couple of week long trips in the coming months (Montana and New England), and are going to update at least weekly with randomness. Tomorrow, I will post our final ratings for each locale.

It took me until the last day, but I finally found peanut butter toast

Busy Kowloon

Crossing the street

Around the Temple Street Night Market. lots of shirtless guys

This guy was trimming his beard with small scissors

A neon corner

Kristin's chicken fried rice

A Hong Kong park at night

The very cramped Ladies Market, which actually

sells more than just ladies stuff

Saturday, July 4, 2009

Mist Shrouded Buddha and Turbulence in Indochina (Hong Kong - Bangkok)

I apologize for not updating yesterday, but we had an absolutely brutal travel day. We began our day with a compliementary easter style buffet at our hotel. It was essentially a triumvirate of offerings, American style, Chinese style, and British style. It was the best breakfast of the trip so far. I had waffles, pancakes, a variety of dim sum dishes, eggs, honey cheerios with bananas, and damn near a loaf of bread. World War 3 was fought in my stomach later betwixt these incompatible intakes, but the traveler's credo in terms of food leans towards a feast and famine mentality. In this case, we feasted. After breakfast, we took a cable car to Ngong Ping Village, The Tian Tan Buddha, and Po Lin Monastery. A thick fog had descended on Lantau Island, and there were numerous times during our cable car ride to the summit that we could not see where we were going, at all. This, combined with the high winds that were knocking our car around the sky, insured that our 20 minute ride to the top was truly high excitement. When we finally arrived, we ascended towards the foggy dreamscape of Tian Tan Buddha, which is one of the largest Buddhas in the world. It was really a shame that we could not see the enormous statue better, but the fog lent a sort of ephemeral feel to the Buddha, because visibility would come and go.

After the Buddha, we visited the Po Lin Monastery. Kristin and I lit incense and put each incense in offering trays. We dedicated each stick to members of our families, and we had so many that no one was left out, even dogs were included. We wrapped things up and returned to our hotel and checked out. We had to catch a flight on Royal Jordanian, or Air Jordan, as Kristin likes to say. We had a world of troubles checking in to the flight because we did not have the original credit card that was used to book the flights online. Because of this, we had to buy new tickets and will probably engage in a long and laborious process to have our initial cost refunded. This was a serious crisis that will haunt our trip like an annoying specter since most of our flights were booked with this card. After that debacle, we were treated to a terrifying rollercoaster ride through Indochina en route to Bangkok. It was the worst flight of our lives. The plane was empty, the food was Arabic, and the vibe of the commute was extremely desperate and foreboding. It was a relief to finally land in Bangkok. I am going back to bed now until about noon our time, and then we are going to get a thai massage and see what Bangkok has to offer.