First stay in Hong Kong!

Hong Kong arrival

Wow, two days behind us and already so much to report! Friday went great, the plane didn't leave until 20:40, so we had a nice slow day fixing the last few things missing, like buying the travel adapters for all our electronics equipment. :-)

No mishaps on our trip, everything worked well, and finally on Saturday WY met us at HK airport and took us to our hotel, the Gold Coast Hotel. Our room is amazing, with sea view and a balcony that is bigger than my living room in Linköping. Feels sad to have to leave it tomorrow morning – none of the other hotels and hostels will be this luxurious.

On the first night we went for food in the area where WY spent the later part of her childhood, and we visited a wonderful park there. Slept really late on Sunday and went for fika/brunch at the R66 revolving restaurant (one revolution per 66 minutes), which offers a wonderful view of HK and surroundings. Later we went to the Peak. We arrived a little too late for watching the sunset, but we still got some great pictures of the night-time city lights. Well, at least the others did. Lessons learned: Always bring the spare battery.

On our way home we spent an hour in a game arcade... Then another hour, then another. We played first a drumming game (think Guitar Hero, only bongo drums instead – crazy fun!), then a tambourine game (adds the dimension of choreography to the drumming game concept) and finally got addicted to a dancing game (strictly choreography). We finally left, hungry and exhausted, and went to a noddle restaurant to further develop our chopstick skills. :-)

When we came home, I got an SMS from my sister, warning me about the earthquake in Japan. Luckily for us, the earthquake was in Ishikawa, not Tokyo, and the airline homepage says our flight is still available and on schedule.

Oops, 04:45 already, and we need to get up at 05:00 to catch the plane. Oh well, I can sleep on the 8h train to Kumamoto on Tuesday...