Man it's humid

We spent our last full day in Hong Kong buying train tickets, going to an indoor mall, mainly for the air-conditioning, finally ate a semi-asian meal, took the world's largest escalator system (according to Dawn anyway), slept a few hours, and back to Kawloon to see the night market and all the lights. It was here that Will had his limits. He kept complaining about his ribs hurting, to the point of just about doubling over. We figure it was the heat getting to him. We ducked into a McDonalds and got several ice cream sundaes, and let him cool off. I think that helped, and we only had one block to go to get to the subway system where it is much cooler. Of course, once we got off at our stop, we ended up walking the wrong way. Once we figured that out, we headed back, got to the ferry which would take us back to Hong Kong island, and grabbed a taxi back to our hotel room. Will is showered and cooled off, and happily watching Discovery channel ( one of only three or four channels that are in English).

Tomorrow we get up, maybe walk across the street to a small zoo and walk around for a short time, then we grab our luggage and head to the train station that will take us to Guangzhou.

I mentioned earlier about finally eating a semi-asian meal. Up until today, here is where we've eaten:

Sbarro, Mcdonald's, Dunkin Donuts, McDonald's again, Burger King, 7-Eleven, Asian Meal, and back to McDonalds for the sundaes. Earlier today, we did walk around authentic little restaurants and shops selling all sorts of authentic food, but some of the smells brought back memories from Cambodia, and the meat markets we would walk by. Those markets were just plain nasty and the smells are firmly embedded in my mind. Though interesting, it's not the kind of food I am accustomed to.

One other interesting thing I have noticed. Everybody, and I mean just about everybody, young and old alike, have a cell phone planted to their head, a camera in hand, a cell phone with a camera, are listening to an ipod, and have a backpack over their shoulder. When we were at the Electronics street market, the thing most people seemed to be in the market for were the cell phones. What a variety. Dawn said she read somewhere that when electronic companies look to test their product, it starts in Hong Kong. Americans are not the only mass consumers in the world-it is quite alive here.

Here's some pictures of the day, and I don't know if I'll have anymore until we have Sean. It depends on what the internet service is like in Guanzhou. Also, a friend mentioned to us that sometimes the comments you leave don't get seen by us. So far, we have seen the ones some of you have left, but in the future, we'll see.