Well - Hello from Hong Kong...
Sorry I haven't emailed earlier - but we had a very
delayed flight in last night,getting to bed about 1.30am
HK time (4.30am Melb time)... (due to cancelled flights
from Melbourne, delayed flights from Sydney, extra
taxiing in Sydney, flying around bad weather and flights
ahead of us taking the "optimum" cruise level for fuel,
meaning we needed to detour to Darwin to take on enough
fuel to actually get us to Hong Kong.)
What a long long day!!
Today started early with a long walk through the local
older traditional part of Hong Kong, and Taylor & I had
our first taste of the amazing street side dumplings!!
We visited the ANZ Hong Kong branch - seeing first hand
the expansion project we completed last year, and
understanding the expansion plans for this year!
The boys were also lucky enough to be given their first
"Hong Bao" (red packets) for Chinese New Year - very
special! - Thanks Simon!
We then spent the day up at the Hong Kong Peak,
Underground Subways, Harbour Ferries and great
restaurants! We only had two separate meltdowns during
the day (quiet tears) - from the 2 overtired younger
boys - who both went to bed at 8pm tonight...
I have attached a couple of photos - 1 of our family in
Hong Kong, and then some of the 2008 Olympic Mascots.
We had some giggles at wondering what the innocent
mascots were up to in the first photo, and as you can
see they took personal offence at our giggles and they
took their revenge!!
We catch the train tomorrow to Guangzhou - we are only
just coping with 4 big suitcases and 5 hand luggage...
It is going to be very interesting with a young baby and
the extra luggage to come!!
We are all looking forward to Sunday - when we meet our
daughter/sister!!
I will send an email again most probably on Friday night
from Guangzhou...
Cheers,
Cindy...
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