July 15, 2009 – Day 202 – Hong Kong

After a confusing morning of more attempts to find the Mirador Mansion with both a faulty map and utterly incorrect directions (written by the hostel!), we finally had success thanks to Saben’s mad navigational skills that are borderline freakish. We spent our day wandering around the city, exploring the endless shopping malls, seeking a cheap barber for Saben’s chia-beard, and finally, phase one of chopstick mastery. There was no fork option and we were eating noodles in soup though they were nice enough to provide everyone with a ladel.

Complicated with chopsticks

The food so far has been quite an experience. They will eat anything here! As proven by the soup options at the resturant from tonight.

Soft Bone!?! I don't even know what that is

Unfortunately we are doing little in the way of sightseeing while we are here. We have come to China with very little of a plan so we are spending the next few days getting an idea of a route together as well as being horribly jetlagged. Not to mention that we will be coming back to Hong Kong to renew our visa in a month so we don’t feel the pressure to run out and see everything for fear of never being here again.

Luckly for us the room we have is very nice (though really really small) and has fast wifi so the work is going well!