Next Couple of Days in HK...

Ok so the next day we visited Stanley which is a crazy little town that has all of these little markets (kind of like a flea market) - you have to know exactly what you want when you go there because otherwise you'll get sucked into the crazy world of retail :S... This is the place that you would want to buy all of your tacky souvenirs and nick nacks... but it was kind of cool to see! We then went to another crazy little town (I can't remember the name of it - because I haven't updated this in so long) Because February 3rd is Chinese New Year - there was decorations and little things going on the enitre week. Well this little town had a crazy fair going on..... nooooo not like the fairs you're thinking of at home - like the Richmond Fair, or the Metcalfe Fair, or the Carp Fair (etc) this fair was nuts! Basically you walked into this little aisle way, where you were shuffled around like a sardine in a can.... and there were no fun rides like at home - or no awesome dance with lots of booze and everyone you know and no live band... nope not at all! There were all these vendors selling the most tacky stuff - for example a giant waffle - what's the purpose - I have NO clue! But that is what they consider a fair... Then after all of that excitement we went for dinner at a restaurant called Hay Hays - which apparently you have to go to when you visit this little town! Actually we only went to the town for Hay Hays... it was really good food though - Real Chinese food (which we had the night before and I tried everything :S) soooooo I didn't go too daring - I literally just had lemon chicken... But it was really really good - the best lemon chicken I've ever had... lol...

So the next day would be Monday January 31st... Adam decided that he wanted to take us to a small fishing village out yonder - where we had to take a ferry to get to. Oh by the way at this point in time we have taken every kind of transportation imagineable except for - of course - a car and a taxi. We have taken multiple kinds of buses (all of which I get really sick on because they are death rides), ferries, subways, trains, planes you name it (well we actually only took a place to get to Hong Kong but you get the picture). Anywayyyy - we went to this little fishing village - Adam lives in the suburbs (if you will) of Hong Kong, and we had visited Hong Kong Island which is packed full of crazy people so now he wanted to take us to the "God's Country" (if my dad were speaking) the outback of Hong Kong, where the men are "men" and all the little fishy are scared... And that was pretty much all that was there. There were all these little cafes with dead fish hanging out in the open for people to pick and choose which semi dead creature they would like to take home and eat... or eat there if they prefered.. there were little hillbilly houses and scary back alleys... now don't get me wrong I am a hillbilly at heart - but if there's a line that town would have crossed it... It was neat to see for about 30 minutes but we spent 2 or 3 hours there so 2 or 3 hours too long!! Oh yeah on the dead fish topic the next day Adam took us to another small little village - where instead of dead fish there were live ones swimming in little tanks and they were skinned and chopped up right there in front of your eyes... *puke* oh wait it gets better - not only were there fish, there was frogs, skinned pigs, skinned ducks... oh and did I mention chickens THAT WERE ALIVE - they decapitated, plucked and skinned them all right there with every body watching..... yummmmm.... oh wait still gets better - did I mention that I was soooooooo hung over?? No - well I'll talk about that one later! So back to the fishing village - we jump on a ferry and head back to the "suburbs" where we decide to go to a Turkish restaurant.... This is where I forced Miss. Cassie to drink two peach schnapps and orange juice (all the guys were drinking and bugging us for not drinking so I gave in...). Well first of all Cassie is not much of a drinker - second of all she is ALLERGIC to peach schnapps - I didn't know I swear!  So on our death bus ride home - she has now passed out and turned really red in the face - and it's only about 7pm.... oopssss... So we take Cassie home and put her in bed then Farzan and I head to the bar to meet Adam and his friends... where a couple of drinks turned into an entire night filled with multiple double drinks and ... tequilla... :S - Did I mention the word Hung Over already?? Anyway we somehow managed to get ourselves back to Adams.... in one piece... once there all I'm going to say - there was puking involved - and not just by me... Somehow Farzan was the only one not puking (who had been drinking beer allllll day long). Those are all of the details I'm going to give on this topic if you would like more - please message me on facebook where I will reveal the details to a select few! lol...

Time for an update!!

Hey all!! So now that I have some quiet time in the hotel I figured it would be a good time to update the blog and let everyone know what I have been up to! So I spent the last week in Hong Kong and now I am in Brisbane! Good update eh??

Let's start at the beginning....
So Farzan, Cassie and I headed to Hong Kong on Thursday January 27th - our flight left at around 10 am - so that means we had to be at the airport at 8am - so that means we were up at 5:30am. The flight was just over 15 hours and none of us got very much sleep thanks to screaming kids and some whatever other reasons. We arrived in Hong Kong at around 2pm on Friday Hong Kong time (so about 1am home time!) We decided to keep going because it would be easier to adjust to HK time instead of having a nap... So we headed to Adam's (Farzan's friend who is putting us up for the week) showered, changed, and what not got something to eat and then decided 9pm would be an ok time to head to bed (we have now been up for about 26 hours). The next day we decided would be our touristy day - because Adam hates tourists and all the things they come to see so he wanted to get it all over with in one day! So off to the Buddha we go... We had to take a cable car up to Buddha and then once up there you have to take what seems like a million steps just to get up to him.. but once we got there it was pretty cool... he is this absolute massive massive Buddha just sitting up there on a hill on top of what seems like everything. It's unfortunate though how touristy Buddha has become - there is even a restaurant inside of Buddha's belly.... that doesn't seem right... We then headed to the Monastary where Cassie and I got our fortunes read - I had the worst fortune ever! I almost cried - haha.. but seriously it was bad! The first part of it said I would be in the middle of a natural disaster and only have the rain forest to hide in - which I find fascinated considering where I am now...

After Buddha we took a ferry to Hong Kong Island and then a tram car (really fast cable trolly) that brings us to the top of "The Peak", which overlooks the Island.. It was actually very pretty. We saw some of the sunset - well before the sun was eaten by the smog and all... We then decided to walk down off the peak back down to the ground..... Well that seemed like it was an eternity it seemed like we were walking for hours and hours! We were all very sore in the morning... One thing about Hong Kong - everybody walks everywhere there is tons and tons of walking!! My legs have never been so toned.. and all after a week! lol..

We then went to a town called SoHo where we sucked up how tired we all were - and went out for a few drinks... we went to a Russian Ice Bar - where we had to wear parkas to get into the bar because quite literally it is a freezer, we took a shot of vodka - got our second wind and went to the next bar - The Keg. The Keg is a Canadian bar - it had a Canadian flag outside of it, the Vancouver game was playing, there was Canadian money and Canadian tire money on the wall! Pretty cool - one thing that sucked was the Toronto Maple Leaf jersey framed on the wall - I'm almost all the way around the world and that's what I see.. grrr...

That was a full packed day of our touristy fun stuff :D .... after all that we headed to bed! Hey we made it until after midnight this night!!

On My Way - Little Detour

Hey All!

So today Dad and I headed up to Aunt Debbie's and Uncle Percy's. On our way up we saw 5 elk in a field just before Madoc! It was awesome!! I'll try and post pictures.. If I can figure out how?? Dad is still talking about them..

So there has been mass confusion this morning regarding flights... looks like there has been a tiny change of plans... We are heading to the airport tomorrow morning bright and early could spend the day in Vancouver or we could go straight to Hong Kong! Yep that's right I said Hong Kong - where we will be spending a week before Farzan and Cassie head home and I head to Brisbane!

That's the news for now - keep ya posted!

Friday January 21st, 2011

So here it is - for the people who would like to keep updated on my adventures over the upcoming year - I've started this blog. I'll be adding pictures and little notes every now and again! This is just the beginning!!