Drumroll please.....Here is Hong Kong, finally!

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3 months...3 months and not more than 30 minutes spent in Hong Kong. I don't count a trip to a seven eleven or running to catch our plane in the Hong Kong airport to add up to my HK experience. 3 months I couldn't even tell anyone what it smelled like or what the peolpe looked like or how much I loved it. So much of my preparation in coming to China, contained Hong Kong. I know I said Hong Kong, more times than I ever said Shenzhen, in fact I might have had people believe I was actually going to be living there. Whether in describing geographically where Shenzhen was (just North of Hong Kong) or what I would spend my time doing (shopping and exploring HK)....it was always in reference to hong kong, not shenzhen. And here I am, almost 3 months in and I had not crossed the border, but only to go to the airport.

So a drumroll is in order...Hong Kong is everything I willed it to be. Crowded. expensive. glamourous. extravagent. diverse (in so many needed ways). an adventure. a big city. curvacious. bright. smog-filled. mature. modern. surrounded by water and in the middle of mountains. fast. tired. spledidly imperfect.......in all the right places.

I went shopping, I took pictures, I had a reuben sandwich, I rode a trolley, I rode a ferry boat. I spoke english. I overheard a variety of other languages. I had ketchup with my meal. I was satisfied.

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Photos

Just straight ahead!
I wish that it was that close....but it actually takes around 2 hours to get to downtown hong kong....in china, you need to go through customs to get into the same country.

it wasn't real!
the skyline of hong kong looked too much like a postcard to be real

Our Hotel..in our dreams
We snuck into the penisula, staking out where we would stay...if we had any money

Is there ANYTHING for sale?
Never a lack of shops, hotels or other business establishments seeking our money.

HK..is there room for me?
I think that HK is suppossed to be one of the most crowded areas in america, but i couldn't help but ask the question...is there room for me?

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[Cindy]

Your like Christopher Columbus discovering a whole new world! Everyday I do to look at for a new installment, like another chapter to my favorite soap opera.