We Are Here!

We arrived in Hong Kong last night around 5pm! That would have been 5am your time....we are exactly twelve hours ahead here.
Our flight went REALLY well. We purchased upgradeable tickets, and were fortunate that they had room in business class for us on the trip from Chicago to Hong Kong. Andre actually got upgraded to First Class on our first leg to Chicago. But they didn't have enough seats, so it was just him...I sat with all the other Joe Six-Packs in the back. :) Anyway, business class was amazing!! When we boarded the plane we got glasses of champagne. They also had a little goody bag filled with things to make us more comfortable on the flight. The food was good, there was little to no turbulence, and we were able to recline our seats and have quite a bit of room. When the seats were all upright and I pointed my toes straight out, I couldn't reach the seats in front of me. That changes a little bit when everyone is lying down, but it was still so nice compared to Economy. We slept and watched movies, and time actually passed quickly.
We took about a 30 minute taxi ride into the city from the airport. The cab driver we had knew a limited amount of English. He was quick to talk about the economy with us, and I thought it interesting that the economy is on everyone's mind. When you live in the USA, you tend to forget that we are having the same problems globally.
We arrived at that hotel which is very nice, but our room is tiny. We barely have enough room for our luggage. But that is okay, because our view is SPECTACULAR!! I will be sure to post some pictures later when we unearth our camera! :) We ordered pizza and showered and fell promptly asleep at 10pm (10am Indy time). We were exhausted from not sleeping much on the plane. The downside of this is that we were both wide awake this morning at 6am (6pm Indy time). Hopefully we will be able to make this time switch relatively easily.
We are making the trip to the mainland tomorrow morning. We want to be settled into the hotel near Andre's office and rested so that he can report to work on Monday morning. Hopefully we will start looking at apartments also, but I am not sure what they have planned for us. Stay tuned...now that we are actually here I hope to update quite a bit!

This is the view we had from the two windows in our room. We could see this when we were lying on the bed in our room. Awesome!!


This was the same view...just at night. This picture doesn't even begin to do justice to the Hong Kong skyline at night.