Hong Kong

June 4th.

The great mom that I am I left on my baby's first birthday to go to Hong Kong. My purpose in going was to help my sister-in-law Meredith get back with her two boys for the summer. They live in China. Kev decided that we should go and make a trip of it. I have a hard time wanting to post these pictures because I really didn't have a good time on this trip. We left on Monday flew to Portland, then Tokyo and then to Hong Kong. We got there on Tuesday at 11:30pm. It was long. But luckily on the way there we were in Business class the whole way. Including from Toyko - Hong Kong we were in seats that are the pods that lay flat. It was great. We stayed at the YWCA in Hong Kong. We had a room with two beds and our bathrooms were shared down the hall. But it was cheap, Hong Kong is really expensive. We just went and went to bed.

On Wednesday we got up really early because we were on the wrong time. It is 14 hours ahead. We headed to Victoria's Peak.We took a cable car up to the top of the peak.

 Here is some of the views on the way up.

 Going back down.

 Then afterward we went to Lantau Island. This is the glass bottom car we were in as we were going up the mountain 

 Before 2007 it was the largest outdoor Buddha. It is really large. There were 248 steps to go up to be at the base. We went up walked around and then came down.

 The next day we went to the monastery of the ten thousand Buddhas. It was a long walk up the hillside but was interesting to see all the Buddhas up and down the walk.

 We saw monkeys up around the monastery

Then we went to Nan Liam Garden. It is right in the middle of the city. It was gorgeous.

The camera that had most of the pictures of us on them is the one that was lost. It was so hot and humid there. I don't think I have ever been in that much humidity in my life! It was crazy!

We met up with my brother Zach and his family on Thursday afternoon. On Friday morning we headed to the airport at 7am. We were trying to go straight from Hong Kong to Detriot. We were traveling with Kev, Me, Meredith, Royal (5) and Atticus (1). This is a 14 hour flight. We were in coach. Atticus was miserable and it was a VERY long day. We ended up traveling over 25 hours before we got home and Atticus maybe slept 4 hours. Poor Meredith was exhausted. Atticus didn't want anyone but her on the flights.