At the table, I was feeling better, but not so much. Peter handed me a menu, but, as I said, it was pig knuckles on this or that, and chicken wings with an egg on whatever … yuck. I ordered a Sprite, and just chatted with them. They ordered rice and some kind of pork. The smell almost made me gag. In fact, most of Hong Kong smells like the inside of an Asian market. I don’t know what it is, but it isn’t growing on me. In fact, most of the local food makes me nauseous. I’m still trying to figure out what tried to kill me today. I had a Green Tea Latte at the Giant Buddha (Starbucks are EVERYWHERE),...

Once we got down from the plateau, it was across a plaza with synchronized water shooting out of the street. There’s actually a cinema there, and I was keen on getting photos of the movie posters. “Terminator: Salvation” is being heavily promoted. I also saw some “Star Trek” coming soon posters. One poster was actually for an Asian film. It was for “Blood: The Last Vampire,” a film I was hoping to see in Japan. According to the poster, it’s still to come. As we went into the subway, my stomach started to hurt, and I realized that I probably should have gone to the restroom. I was...

I woke up around 8 a.m., and Skyped Smith. I also started downloading and uploading my photos. In 20 minutes, I think I uploaded only about 12 photos to Flikr, and I had about 100 plus to go! Because of this I bought a three-hour Internet card. I took my shower and got ready to go. BTW, this is a pretty awesome hotel for services. We got complimentary shower cap, tooth brushes, tooth paste, shampoo, shaving gel, soap, razors … maybe something else. Very nice. Sometime around 10:20 or so I got a phone call from Natalie – one of the three of us who stayed home from church – and she was wondering...

We got off the plane we went to the luggage carousel, and then blasted through customs. (It was a breeze, something I didn’t expect.) We then went to exchange our money, which was infinitely better than Amsterdam. NO charges, and we ended up getting 7 HK for every one US. I gave them a $50 and got back something like $373! Of course the first thing I saw coming out of the baggage area was a Coke machine. I never fell over when I saw the price beneath each can was $10. In HK money … it’s expensive but not THAT bad. Peter bought our train tickets, and we took one to Kowloon. Then we took a...

The flight from Amsterdam to Hong Kong was good in just ONE way – because we were seated near the Exit, we had plenty of room to stretch out. The bad part of it was everything else. First off, we had a couple seated on the opposite side, right behind us, with a baby, and it made a lot of noise. Not wanting to put up with it – I hadn’t had any sleep so I was very tired and cranky – I put my headphones on, plugged in my iPod and cranked it up. I then covered myself with my blanket, put my shitty small pillow at the base of my back, blew up my travel pillow, wrapped it around my head, and...