Saturday - left Stevens house around 8:30, had maccas brekkie.. went to airport. caught first plane. China airlines... it was weird.. 9 hour flight to Taipei.. the lady sittin in front of me was weird.. she pushed her chair back.. and she wasnt allowed.. :( it was really uncomfortbale.. and the food they served wasnt that nice..watched about 3 movies...played games.. after about 8 hours i felt really yuk.. and airsick.. but i closed my eyes.. and fanned myself with the bard bag.. lol i made it..! we reached taipei.. and went to the toilet.. i threw up lol.. it was the apple juice they served on the plane.. then we caught another plane to hong kong.. the whole time i had my eyes closed.. this was 1.5 hour flight.. the smell was ewww.. like horrible.. but i survived.. we landed around 11pm in hong kong time.. got a transfer bus to the hotel.. arrived around 12:30 am.. lol they gave us a double bed when we ordered twin beds.. but yeh they changed it for us on sunday morning.. after we got our luggage upstairs checked out the view, we went and found us a 7/11.. (they are everywhere!) we got like all these drinks, icecream, gum and sutff for like 7 dollars aussie.. soooo cheap!.. we got back, showered and went to bed around 4:30am hk...
Sunday- yesterday... we woke up around 10am... got ready.. and headed out shopping.. walked around nathan rd... and some other places... found the main woolies equivalent - wellcome market... bought some more grocerys.. we ate maccas for brekky.. i had this crispy chicken burger meal.. and it was like a zinger burger meal but spicy as!... then more shopping, in and out of our hotel for small breaks.. we had dinner at a chinese restaurant.. and they served our drinks in metal beer type mugs.. found a cafe called pacific coffee which lets u use net for 15 min at a time if u buy a drink.. pretty much went to bed around 1am..
Monday - today woke up early.. and went to Kimberly Hotel for pickup of our first tour.. we caught the tour bus and went first to see the junks.. rode a sanpan... saw a dog on a fishing boat.. then went to a jewellry factory.. bought some stuff.. stanley market next, got some good bargains i guess.. i got a bag from 290hk down to 140hk.. pretty good stuff... then we went up to victoria peak... lookout was too foggy.. then we went down a tram car.. it was really really steep.. like a rollacoaster! then tour ended.. went back to hotel had a nap.. back out shopping on some other roads... forgot there names.. my sense of direction is really out of whack... we had dinner at pizza hut.. the most formal, clean and high classed pizza hut ive ever seen.. lol then we continued walkin around.. and found an internet cafe.. woohoo only 12hk an hour which is like 1.50aussie... cooliez.. anywayz thats it for now..
oh and some general info... weather is humid.. and wet.. very wet.. my hair has been dramatically frizzy and curly... and its ok.. its fun to walk in the rain.. everything smells different... like seafood.. and yukky sea water and stuff.. but some places smell ok.. theres 7/11 and Giordano stores everywhere.... traffic lights turn red, then yellow, then green.. so yellow = "get ready to go".. hardly any1 speaks english... just like simple money costs n stuff... hrmmm but all in all its ok.. 2moro we have a tour of Kowloon.. so better start gettin off and heading back to hotel soon... ill try and update now and again... i miss everyone and everything heaps already... so email me, comment, and sms.. its nice 2 get some contact from home...hehe
xoxo bye bye
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