HONG KONG

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OK, so here's the super-fancy hotel I stayed in my first night.  Man, Hong Kong is expensive!  I brought the wrong wrong wrong guidebook and seriously got screwed on the accommodation front over here.  Kind of kept to myself so there aren't any drunken insanity pictures. 

I was so excited I started taking pictures of everything in my new fancy hotel room.  I especially liked the whole idea of having to have your key in this little hole ion your wall in order for your power to work in your room.  I bet it saves a lot of electricity.  I'd say about a quarter of the rooms I stayed in had a key setup like this.  But um, nuthin else this fancy!

And here we begin Libbe's fascination with Southeast Asian bathrooms....

OK so technically this could be a picture of Bangkok, but I stuck it in here just in case I was wrong. Send me an email if you know the answer and you may win a prize!

Here's all the pics I took from my hotel windows.  I'm such a dork..

OK so I was just going to save one of these transit cards as a souvenir or whatnot, but it turns out that you have to feed your pass back into the machine in order to be let out of the subway area.  So I thought I'd just take a picture of it.

This is the Kowloon Night Market.  Huge huge huge and it seems to run all night-even if the trains don't

This was a science museum that I wished I had time to go to ~sigh~

The next night I moved in to SoHo.  It's a lot like when Dorothy went from Black & White to Color in The Wizard of Oz.  Of course the camera doesn't even being to capture it.  It's like being indoors in Vegas when really your outdoors in Hong Kong.   Does that make any sense?

This is the famous Shelly Avenue (or Street or Drive or something?) escalator.  I think it's like 2km long or something.  They shut off at like 11pm and trust me, you do not want to walk up all those stairs when the motors stop!  It's a beautiful view on the way down though.

The next day, I swear I thought all these ladies were in line to be on a reality TV show or something.  Turned out that these thousands (and I DO mean thousands!) of women were just shopping all day and took a lunch break all at the same time on little blankets and bits of cardboard all over the shopping district of the city.  Smart-because the restaurant food is pretty expensive.

I don't know why this always gets me excited.  I can't even really afford to shop here. It's just always so interesting which stores other countries choose to adopt in their regions.

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