Longest Flight Ever and A Very Tiny Space, Alice

Who knew 15.5 hours would feel like FOREVER~!  Thank God we were in business class, or I might have gone all postal on people.  I can't imagine what it will be like in April when we return to Ontario for two weeks' vacation and have to fly economy.  We scoped it out...economy...OMFG, can you say "sardine city"?  No, no, no.

After surviving the flight, we arrived at Hong Kong airport and all went smooth as silk.  We breezed through immigration and found all of our bag pretty quickly.  Then there was some guy with my name on a card, so that was easy (wish I had my "that was easy" button from staples with me).

It was a balmy 17 degrees and hazy when we arrived.  You could smell the ocean and see outlines of mountainous regions.  Then the HK harbour materialized as we were driving to the hotel, and my goodness, it was awe inspiring.  Thousands of containers linked up on the docks waiting to be shipped or unloaded.  The tallest buildings you've ever seen in your life, jutting up all over the place.  Steep hills, with reinforcements to keep the soil from crumbling onto the roadway.  Beautiful, majestic bridges connecting the bits and pieces of Hong Kong.

We arrived at our appointed apt. on Macdonnell Road.  Looked nice enough, but when we got into our so-called junior suite, by gosh it was tiny, tiny, tiny.  I will literally end up charged with murder if I have to live with Klajdi in that space for six months.  Let's just say we'll be going out A LOT or I'll be working tons of overtime if don't get a larger suite.  I've asked, but we'll see what "the company" says.

Having virtually no sleep in the last 20 hours, we still decided to walk down to see "the company" building.  Wow, wow, wow.  Very cool; although my knees hurt like hell as the walk down was extremeley steep.  We dinner at some Flemmish bistro for a whopping $100 bucks, but the consolation was that the cab ride back to the hotel was oly $3.

Tomorrow it's off to the bank to activate our HK account and then more exploring before I start work on Wednesday.  I'm freakin' tired.  Night.