My Hong Kong story

My mom and I had a BIG adventure, right off the bat! Our plane, that was headed to a costal city had to land at a different airport about 40min. away because the winds and rain were too high to land where we wanted to. We were in the airplane for about four hours and then they sent us into the airport. The airport was small but atleast it had pringels and a coke. :o) We were there for probably another 4 hours, when they called us to board the plane. yipee!! We FINALLY landed! Altogether, we had about a nine hour delay!!! :o) The pic is of my mom and I when we finally landed. We look tired, dont we.
So, when we got off the plane we went straight out to the travel desk bacause we had to get to Hong Kong that night.eek... we were a bit freaked out about it!! The lady told us that it was pretty simple. She wrote three places down in characters. She told us that we had to get to the first place by taxi, the next by bus and then the last place by subway. We payed for the taxi and then followed the lady out to our taxi. We got into the car and then our driver and another driver started a fist fight!! :oO!!! I told my mom that we needed to get out. I got out and got our stuff. After watching them fight for a while another guy finally came up and offered to take us. The ride was nice. We made it to the bus station. We were totally confused but random people kept on pointing us in the direction we needed to go. We went through a small customs desk and then we went on through. Buying the ticket was a little difficult. We were confused until another random person came and told us exactly what to do. We bought the ticket and boarded the bus. :o) yipee! We rode the bus for about 3 min. and he parked. We were, yet again, confused, then another random guy told us that we had to go through customs and then get back on the bus. THat took us about 45 min. but finally we found the right bus, agian and rode it for about 20min. I took that pic, above on that bus. We look REALLY tired, now. We started to get off the bus when a man told us that it wasn't our stop so we sat back down a little bewildered. The bus stopped again and he told us that we could get off here. Wow!! :o) That was the subway. Another person came over us and asked us if we were going to Mae Foo. We said yes and then told us to follow him. Buying the subway ticket was pretty simple. We got them and then went to 7/11. I bought FRESH MILK!!!! I hadnt had that since leaving America. It was g-o-o-d exclamation point! We found our sub. and off we went. When we got off the next place we had to find was our flat. You guessed it! We were not sure were to go. In the middle of the night, we were standing there, not sure were to go when two teenage girls came by and led us there. whoa... I was completely blown away when we finally could sit on our bed at our apt. :o) Halleluja!!
This is our apt. It was good enough for just a couple days and big enough for two people. :o)
The next day, we got up fairly early. :o( no good. We went to McDonalds for a quick breakfast and then hopped on the subway to go to the doctor's office. To get there the subway had to go under the bay. aaaaaa!!! that kind of freaked me out. My mom and I were having some fun by holdig our breath. So, after having a couple tests run.... I didn't have to have anything removed!!!! woo hoo! Thank you Father! My mom and I went to Starbucks after the good news was heard! YUMMMM! Carmel Frappachino... licking my lips at the moment. :o) So, after that we went back in the subw(I'm not even going to say that anymore just know that we practically lived in the subway) We went back across Hong Kong and ate at KFC. Then, my mom found out that she was allergic to the meds that the doc gave my mom so we had to go all the way back. :o( Then, we went back to the mall where we ate at KFC and did some fun shoppin! :o) Look at the BIG crowd!! That night we ate at Dan ryann's Chicago grill. Good stuff....good stuff...! That's a pic of me eating there.
The next day was pretty crazy. It was the last day and we had to get tickets and all that good stuff but we did get to go up to the peak and look over Hong Kong which was a blast. :o)
We rode this awesome hydrofoil on our way to the airport from Hong Kong to the coast of the country where I live. It was pretty awesome. I've never ever ridden anything like it before. :o)
On the way we saw some pretty awesome sights, too. :o) Well, that was all. I had an amazing trip. I'm glad that I got to see Hong Kong. :o)

Holli