The image you have in your mind of what you will see when you get to Hong Kong is wrong... it is nothing like I expected. It is one of the most beautiful places I have even seen.
We caught a bus from the airport to our hotel. It was about a 45 minute drive with mountains and the ocean on all sides. Absolutly breathtaking!
We stayed in a five star hotel in a mall... we didn't really discover where we were until the day we went to leave. If you visit Hong Kong you need to say at least five days... the two we were there were not enought. The hotel room itself was just wonderful. We commented on how we should have had this room in the last two places we stayed... this hotel out did the famous White Swan by at least five stars!!!
The first night there we didn't get to see a whole lot as most of the day was taking by the traveling to Hong Kong and getting to the hotel... but across the stree we found a Hard Rock Cafe!! Amanda was in Heaven!! We did go there for dinner that night and they actually had soda in the fountain and we were given refills! On the last day in Hong Kong we sat at the Hard Rock killing time waiting for our bus to the airport...this is when we found out the reason they give refills is they charge $5.00 per soda!! This is not what we paid in China!
That is another thing... China and Hong Kong are not the same... they even have different money! We had to cash in our yens for Hong Kong dollars when we arrived at the air port... pretty much the same exchange rate! but a pain anyways! It was a trip trying to figure out what we were paying for things.
Thursday, March 15, 2007
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We are trying to adopt from Hong Kong too, but so far it is all al closed door for us. We have made a family website just this month to tell our story
www.melodyofhope.com
Ruth
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