Here in the HK...

So we arrived in Hong Kong at around 3:00pm HK time yesterday. Ater we got past customs (which was a complete breeze) and got our luggage we had a hard time finding any of my relatives. I found out shortly after that we had absolutely NO contact info. No phone numbers for any of my relatives, no addresses, no NOTHING.

How convenient.

I was really glad when my uncle flagged me down half an hour later.

We then went to Sha Tin where we were staying, dropped off our luggage, freshened up and headed out to meet up with the rest of my family for dinner at a restaurant in North Point. Everyone was there except for one aunt and a cousin.

After dinner we headed to Temple street to do some shopping. Temple street stretches accross many blocks and is full of street merchants selling cheap stuff. When I mean cheap I mean cheap in price as well as quality. It's definately worth a look-through though. We're probably heading back before the end of our trip since we only caught half of it before everything closed at 11.

Last night we caught up on all the sleep we missed the night before so we had a late start. We met up with my parents where Jay tried dim sum for the first time.

Then we checked out a couple travel agencies to book our one-day Hong Kong tour, (which we're going on first thing tomorrow morning) and inquire about Thailand tickets. My parents are being overly insistant on us going on a guided tour when we head over there, but we're definately not going that route. What's the fun in that? Following a group of people around for 4 days and three nights, not having a choice of what we want to do, where we want to go, or even what we want to eat. We're definately not going that route. We'll have to do some more research tonight.

After that we took a train to the peninsula then a ferry to Central district where we checked out the famous Lan Kwai Fong (one of Hong Kong's red light districts).

We then took a streetcar over to Wan Chai and had a fabulous Japanese dinner.

Then we did some shopping while walking towards Causway Bay to meet up with my cousin Tony.

Ater my parents finally left us (I don't think they trust us to be alone here), Tony took us to the treehouse cafe where we met up with one of his friends (don't remember his name). We sat there for a bit then had to take the last train back to Sha Tin.

It's now 1:15am here and we have to get up at 6:30 to make it to the Kowloon Hotel by 8:30am to start our tour. I'm not overly excited about the whole 'group tour' thing but it's a good and cheap way to get around to the main attractions in a short period of time.

I'll let you know how it goes. My prediction is that it will be a stressful, rushed and long 9 hours with a bunch of middle to old aged anti-social people who really don't give a rats ass about the history of Hong Kong but are in it for the cheap transportation and the food. But that's just me. Probably because I'll be on day 2....and I'm not talking about day 2 of my trip...