Wednesday, April 7, 2010

I'm in Hong Kong


well. It's 6 in the morning in Hong Kong. Which means it's about 4PM in Provo, Ut. And since there's not much else to do at 6AM in provo i thought I'd write a little blog talking about our adventures so far. (PS this is my new favorite candy Bueno's SOOOO GOOOD!)

We left for hong kong on tuesday morning. I didn't sleep the night before because we had to be at amy's at 4 in the morning, and i had an 8 page paper to finish and i also had to pack. I figured i'd be able to sleep in the 15 hour flight (turns out i didn't really) haha. anyway so we got to amy's and then headed for the airport. Here's a picture of all of us at amy's house before we left.

We first flew to san fransisco. This flight was nothing compared to our hong kong flight. only about and hour and a half. i slept the whole way which was nice. I was by the window so i had a nice little headrest. Our layover in san fran was about 4 hours long. i attempted to sleep on the airport floor but i was unsuccessful, sadly. So after some airport food and a little bit of rest we got onto our plane for Hong Kong....and let me tell you this plane was HUGE! it was a double decker...with two seats on each side and then four seats in the middle of each of them. we were all in the middle. in rows 50 and 51...i sat by kelsey and cassie and there wasn't anyone behind us so we got to put our seats back pretty far. that was nice. They also gave us a blanket and pillow...so we attempted to sleep again a little...i got about an hour or two of sleep. then they fed us some rice and chicken or something...it wasn't too bad. i'm not a huge fan of plane food though. we watched about 4 movies on the plane. i really enjoyed the young victoria...it was a happy movie. Anyway here a few pictures from the plane ride. One of the flight attendants was super nice and he asked if we wanted a picture of all of us.

















after 15 hours of flying we finally got to hong kong! this city is crazy! it's like a jigsaw puzzle of buildings and they ran out of room on the ground so now they have to start building up! EVERYONE lives in apartments and they spend their whole life savings on them. but although it's super city-like, it's also very wet and green...it's like a city in the middle of a rain forest. i LOVE IT!

We had a few people showing us around from the acappella festival. 3 guys (kenneth, julian, and simon) and then 1 girl (Snowy) they were all really nice and julian kept telling us everything there is to know about hong kong. We were about 30 minutes from our hotel so we took a bus to get there...it's not really a hotel...it's more of like a super nice hostile for youth. it's called Y-square. and it's also where we're going to be performing tonight. It's super nice. it's only about 6 months old. It's like government owned and is some place that was built just for youth to be able to have a performing center and stuff. There are 6 beds in here so we pretty much all fit in one room they gave us another room with 2 beds but we didn't feel like being separated so we all are just staying in the one room. ANYWAY....so the first night we went to bed at about 10pm...which is 8am provo time. we all kind of had a restless night. and we woke up at 6in the morning and couldn't fall back asleep. so we went to mcdonalds for breakfast (this would be my home away from home haha) here's a picture of my meal. It's not quite the same as mcdonalds in the US. there are definitely significantly less options here, but the hash browns are still just as good! and that's really all that matters anyway :)

That day we went and sang on a radio show and sang a little bit it was pretty fun. Here are some pictures from that

























After the radio we went and had Food at a Chinese restaurant. which is just a normal restaurant here i guess hah. It was surprisingly REALLY GOOD! which is saying something cuz i'm pretty picky when it comes to foods from different countries. But i told them before we went that i didn't like fish so they knew. We had a lot of BBQ pork! SO GOOD. BBQ pork dumplings, BBQ pork and rice, BBQ pork and rice rolls....and then we tried one other thing...which you may not believe i actually tried...but Cassie got a picture of it so I'll post that at some point haha. but it was JELLY FISH!! oh my...it was gross. it was cold and chewy and just...gross. i didn't swallow it...but it was just gross. here are some pictures from the restaurant.
laina is eating chicken feet and amy tried some squid...ew.
















So anyway this post is already a little TOO long i'm sure for anyone's liking if you actually read the whole thing you get like 40 points! haha i'll just add a few random pictures to the end. The last picture is of us and two other girls that were showing us around hong kong their names are daisy and candy. We loved them :)

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

I just wanted to comment and say that I am jealous that you are in Hong Kong! I am also jealous you are getting those Kinder Buenos!!! SOOO good!! Im a big fan of your music and you and your sister! Keep up what you do!! And eat a extra Bueno for me!! ;-)

Anonymous said...

where is courtney..n i think sumbody else is missing nt sure?

Michael & Siri said...

Hey Katie! I'm jealous you guys are having so much fun without me :D But it's ok I'm sure you guys are jealous of me, I spent all day in the library hahahaha. Anyway I love you girls and I miss you like CRAZY, so have fun, be safe and come back to me sooooooon!!!!

Loves!
Siri

CAHOON CLAN said...

I get 40 points-I read the WHOLE THING!! Looks like you guys are having a good time. Keep posting and I'll live vicariously through you-world traveler!! :-)