We are in HONG KONG!!!!!

Greetings to you all from Hong Kong!!!! We made it safe and sound:) We have had so much fun already! We slept great at the airport hotel, the night before leaving - only had a few “issues” with “excited diarrhea!! :) ha!

We arrived on time for each of our destinations, our luggage made it, and Wade has only said a few times “we are definitely NOT carrying this much stuff around when we are carrying around Graycn, I don’t care what we have to pay extra, we are paying it!” hee-hee :)

We were able to talk with Blayne and Haydn at school before our international flight, and left 2 messages for Paytn who was home sick - my sweet baby girl! - mommy/daddy love you guys sooooo much and are only 2 ½ days away from your Graycn!

We had so much fun with a Chinese family during our 15 ½ hour international flight :) He had us rolling with all of his “United Airline facts” of how the airlines have cut costs over the years. Here are just a few of his “tidbits” he generously and humorously shared with us: alcohol used to be free, and is now $6, they used to have a fruit snack, the salads used to have a cherry tomato and a cucumber (now it is just lettuce - only lettuce) and they used to hand out hot towels. He was also right on with each of the meal options to choose. For example: eat the beef, not the chicken! Pick the lasagna, not the ham and cheese sandwich (which was actually turkey, not ham). But the funniest moment was during our first meal, he reaches behind him (where his wife and kids were sitting) and brings forward a “to go box” from home. He opens it up and there is a HUGE platter of BBQ pork! I have NO idea where he was “storing” that!!!! It is as if he had just pulled it out of his armpit! :) (Brenna, you would have gotten a huge kick out of this next surpirse) Before I could get my composure, he pulls out another “to go box” and you will NEVER guess what was inside………..”DUCK TONGUE”!!!! - that’s right, “DUCK TONGUE!!!!” You could actually see the mandible and this little tongue connected at the base of the jaw. Needless to say, Wade and I looked at each other and said “Chinese cuisine……..here we come!!!!”

The hotel is just beautiful….we are getting ready to crawl in for the night. We have a 6:30am wake up call for breakfast. We hope to meet all our CCAI families tomorrow. We met about 2/3 of them tonight- This is just going to get better and better! So wish you all could be here with us to experience it! We will do our best to bring it all to you!!! So far, we have only met one guy going to our province. The other families are going to a province to the east of us- we hope to meet our other province families tomorrow.

Tomorrow (Sat at 8:15am our time/6:15 pm Fri for you) we get to tour Victoria Peak - it is supposed to be "one to the most spectacular panoramic views in the world". We will then tour Aberdeen, a fishing village known as a “haven of the fishing fleets and floating restaurants”. We with then go to a Aberdeen Jewelry Factory, where we will get to see the “artist carving on semi-precious stones and gold metals”. Our last stop will be at Stanley Market, known for it’s “bargain shopping and traditional handicrafts”. All of that is done by 1:15pm, because we are scheduled to eat at “Dim-sum” for lunch. (The rest of the afternoon is ours to “hang” and walk around, get to know the other families :)

We are scheduled to leave for the airport on Sun at 8:50am our time (6:50pm Sat- KC time). Our flight leaves for Changsha (Graycn’t capital city) at 11:55am (9:55pm Sat/ KC time). We do not know what time we will meet our daughter, but at this point, it looks like some time on Monday 2/23 :) :) :) :) :) !!!!!!!!!!

Oaky…..off to bed….I will try to down load some photos….hope you can see the blog!
Love to you all!
w&h

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