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Hong Kong....what was it like?

This is not awesome:
1. That Krispy Kreme closed their stores in HK in 2008.....which we didn't realize until after we spent a good amount of time looking for Krispy Kreme.
2. Crossing the border from Mainland China into Hong Kong. I'm not sure what we did wrong. But we did something really wrong. On the way in we ended up at some "station" which was not a subway station and only had cabs into the city or buses back into China....and all of them only took Hong Kong Dollars (which we did not have at that time). On the way back - we thought we went the best way back into mainland China, until we ended up walking in the rain for an hour looking for buses to take us to the airport.

3. The size of our room. And the size of the bed, which was about 4 inches too short for Aaron's legs, and was up against a wall.....luckily there was a few inches not touching the wall that he could use to hang one foot over.

This is kinda awesome:

1. Frozen yogurt. I have been missing frozen yogurt and Hong Kong, like America, in the past couple of years has really gotten into the frozen yogurt fad. It wasn't Feeney's. But it'll do.

2. The world's longest outdoor escalator, which is like taking a conveyor belt through a delicious buffet of restaurants.  It is at the same time the best and the worst ride, because it makes it so hard to decide what you want to eat for dinner.

3. A statue of Bruce Lee. It was kinda awesome.

This is awesome:

1. Okay - so I didn't realize that Hong Kong was more than just a big city on a harbor. It's a bunch of islands! We went to the south of the island one day and I was blown away by how beautiful it was - mountainous islands over pretty blue water. I loved the south part of the island and Gwen, if I was rich girl, I would love to vacation at the south side of the main island instead of in the city.

2. The food. Barbecue, grits, thai food, tostadas, quesadillas, cottage pie. delicious and not available in the mainland....at least not that good anyway. We ate like fatties. Oh yeah - and the free flowing root beer, cream soda, ginger beer (which is like a stronger ginger flavored ginger ale), grapefruit juice.....(and by free flowing, I mean you could buy these things at convenience stores).

3. Movie theaters. With movies in English.

4. The ferry ride across the harbor. and the harbor at night.  Beautiful.