We Made It

Well, we made it to Hong Kong without international incident and had a rather easy time of going through immigration and finding our luggage immediately, no hicccups, yaaawwn. We got to our hotel about midnight after a $400 cab ride, those are Hong Kong $ (exchange rate is about 7.7HKD=1USD), from the airport. It looks like we are right in the center of nothing as far as I can tell.

The rooms are nice, although not that big and the bed is like a foot off the floor.





























It is Tuesday morning and we went in the search of breakfast. Walking right out of our hotel front door this is the first thing we see on our travels, looking left then looking right.




















We head to the right, exciting choice I know, not sure what we are looking for as long as it appears to be edible and breakfast like in nature. Ideally, and many of you may already know this, but I would hope their is a Starbucks near the hotel.

About half way down the block this is the first sight of food we find after the clothing vendors:
















Not what we were looking for to start the day. I really didn't want my first meal here to look back at me. So we kept walking and lo and behold we found the international sign for good food, the golden arches. Now, I know what many of you are thinking, you are in Hong Kong and went to McDonald's for breakfast? We walked around for a while looking for some baked goods or authentic Chinese breakfast food, but just didn't find it, so we settled.

After our breakfast we continued to explore the neighborhood. To be honest we didn't see too much, much of what we saw just reminded me of walking through Chinatown in any major city in the US.

This is looking down one of the main streets near the hotel, not that exciting.












Even in the early morning the fish market was rather busy, and not just one of them, all of them seemed to have people in front of them buying fresh fish.










Something Ray and I both found a bit odd is that there is a 7-11 about every half block around our hotel. This is the only KFC we saw, which means we won't starve between that and the nearby McDonald's.









Next up for today now that we have had breakfast is trying to find Asif. We know he is in town and staying in Metropark, but have no clue where that is in relation to where we are, North Point. Also, we don't have his cell phone number, so hopefully he wakes up soon and gets on IM so that we can coordinate a meeting. We also need to find out where we are supposed to be meeting up with the e-Crusade and HKTB folks on Wednesday morning. We didn't see a single cab near the hotel so we are going to try and figure out the subway system this afternoon.