Catching Up - Part 2

OK, so it will be 3 Posts!

Anyway, we were up early this morning. Lisa was feeling even worse, so I went out to Starbucks (where else did you think I would go?) for some coffee and muffins while Lisa fed Kyle. This helped a little, and she suited up like a trooper to head out. I was able to get some maps from the concierge and we set out today to see HK Island.

The MPH is really nice - we have a large room, with lots of floor space for all of our junk and lots of play space for the K-man. He has a great crib - roomy and comfortable. (He did not wake up once.)

I forgot to mention that the night before we left, all the packing, the sight of the suitcases, and all of the commotion must have triggered some thing in Kyle's brain. He woke up screaming and crying 3 times (10PM, 12, and 3AM). He was absolutely inconsolable. We felt so bad, but know he might have nights like this. We did what we could to comfort him, and fed him a little bit (some juice and a biscuit/cracker) each time. It helped a little bit - but we all got very little sleep. Iam certain that this is a cause for Lisa feeling ill as well.

Where was I...oh yeah...the hotel.
Top shelf accomodations, attentive staff (except for the failure to come through with an early - before noon - check-in yesterday), great location - 100 yards from the ferry terminal. I'm sure Bob and Carolyn know where it is.

This morning after breakfast, we took the world-famous Star Ferry over to HKI (Hong Kong Island) to go to the Zoo and to Victoria Peak. Lisa toughed it out, and we covered the zoo after a short taxi ride from the ferry terminal. It was nice - some of it was under construction, and so not available to visitors. It's also on a bit of a hillside - so it was a little challenging. Inside we found a little children's playground, and gave Kyle this first taste of playgrounds. He seemed to like some things - one of the pictures I'll post show Lisa and Kyle on a little rocking seat). He had some throuble on the swings and on the slide - his core strength needs some work so he didn't have the strength (or confidence) for these. We did try them though.

We walked from the Zoo to the Victoria Peak Tram station. This was after we got into a taxi - only to have the driver point out that the terminal was about 2 blocks away!! The tram ride was really cool and gave great views of the harbor skylines all the way up. It's basically a cable car (2 Passenger cars) that rises on railroad tracks up 1200 feet in about 10 minutes. For those of you who've been there - it's a lot like the Incline up to Mount Washington in Pittsburgh.

We got out at the top and toured the shopping areas. There are about 5 floors of shops and an outside observation deck. For those of you keeping track, Kyle does not fancy strong winds in his hair!! The Deck had great views of both sides of HKI, but between Lisa vertigo and Kyles aversion to high wind - unfortunately, we could not stay outside. Lisa and Kyle went inside and I got some shots from the deck. I also snapped (and will post shortly) a shot of L&K safely inside with the skyline in the background.

We had a nice lunch at the Bubba Gump at the Peak, and headed back down shortly after. We grabbed a taxi back to the Ferry and took the Ferry back to Kowloon. On thr trip back, Lisa nearly passed out while Kyle slept in his shiny new stroller. I snapped a few pictures - and will post 1.

All of which brings me back to right now in Kowloon...

Lisa and Kyle are sleeping in the room, and I am in another Internet Cafe (two doors down from the Starbucks). This place is NOTHING like the other "Net Bar" I used in Nanchang. It's actually a nice little well spaced (I'm not rubbing shoulders with some gamer!!) collection of what look to be newer PCs, in a nice well lit well ventillated room with maybe 60 spaces. English seems to be as common as Chinese in here, with lots of Aussies and Brits. There are 2 cruise ships in town so I've seen/overheard passengers and crew catching up with their e-mail / blogs. I'm sure it's much cheaper here than on board.

So that's it - up to the minute.

I'm headed back to the room to wake the rest of the team and head out for chow.

So cheers for now and I'll post pictures right after - provided the connection is quick enough.
C