Day Six - Hong Kong

- Hong Kong is fabulous. We have a view of the skyline from our hotel, we can successfully order food in a restaurant, and we have yet to get in a shouting match with store employees.

- Seriously, the city is just very, very pretty, with lots of parks, a beautiful downtown, a cool pier and the most amazing skyline we've ever seen. It's a very centralized city, unlike the more spread out Tokyo. And it seems a whole hell of a lot more relaxed -- must be the British influence. The city reminds us both of London, actually, with the double decker busses, the way the streets are set up, the constant tea everywhere, the English Premier League soccer on the television, and the fantastic British pubs. Speaking of which ...

- Five Reasons Why Alan and Sue Should Never Drink in a Foreign Country:

1. We couldn't find the door into a nice conveyor belt-sushi place. Sue pounded on a glass door that wouldn't open. The actual entrance had a huge "Welcome" sign on it.

2. Alan dropped his sushi directly ONTO the conveyor belt at said restaurant.

3. Then he knocked over the bottle of wine we had purchased earlier in the evening.

4. Then Sue dropped sushi onto the conveyor belt. I'm telling you, this was a very tricky conveyor belt.

5. Finally, Sue fell off the Hong Kong escalator on the way home. Total wipe-out.

- The only drawback: we're here in the middle of a Typhoon. Whoops! Of course, the typhoon is off to the west by a couple hundred miles, but it's still very windy and cloudy here. Ah, well. We still love it.

Loving HK,
A&S