Blade Runner

I updated my earlier picture post with some explanations.


I had my first experience with downtown Hong Kong last night and it was mind blowing, I was so overwhelmed, but it was a blast.

To get to Hong Kong Island, we have to take a 15 minute bus ride from Pui O to Mui Wo and catch the 30 minute ferry into the pier in Hong Kong.
This is a shot from the pier right after we got off the boat.

This is the building Batman jumped off from.

I was amazed at everything walking around, we walked from Central through Mid-Levels and eventually made it to Wan Chai, it was a pretty crazy night and we caught the ferry back at 3am. I really need to go back during the day.


There were 3 different Seven Elevens visible from the point that I took this last photograph, 3! 3! That's a lot of free chili and cheeze and Big Gulps

Hong Kong Random Thoughts

I've had a long past two days of training, learning the overview of the way things work. They took us for a hike last night and we came across either a python or a cobra. It was pretty cool to watch it make its way back into the woods.

We also saw the Big Buddha, the largest bronze Buddha in the world, the day before yesterday. I took some pictures, but my memory card lost them all and I couldn't recover them. Karma maybe?

The kids are coming next Monday for "Adventure Racing" which will consist of repelling, kayaking, initiatives, and a bunch of other cool stuff.

I took some tricks from my ALE tool bag and taught my co-workers the wonderful games Bunny Bunny, Yee-Haw, and Mrs. Sally Walker with a rhythm circle thrown in there. It was great.

This is a pretty random post, I miss my banjo hopefully I can find one here or get mine sent to me soon. There are a lot of British people around here too. The public transportation is excellent and cheap, pretty much everything is 10-25% less than its American equivalent. It's been probably 10 years since I could buy a soda for less than $1 in the states and this stuff has real sugar in it! I also bought some Pocari Sweat, solely based on it's name, it's like Powerade but less concentrated. The only coffee you can get around here is instant, which pretty much means it's aweful. I still drink it, I can't help myself.

I'll have to leave my experiences with the Pui O/Hong Kong culture for another time, it's been pretty interesting so far.

Picture

These top two pictures are taken from the middle of the two buildings that Treasure Island owns and they show the Pui O public beach.


These are some of the ~70 water buffalo that run wild around Pui O, they were let go by farmers years ago and they are running around wild in the pasture areas near the ocean where we work.













These bottom two pictures are from us walking through town to get to the Treasure Island buildings, it's about a 7 minute walk from where we live

Dreamt I went away in a steam powered aereoplane...

I bid farewell to everyone Saturday night as we left for Albany. We decided (mom, dad, and I) that rather than risking driving down early in questionable weather on Sunday we would go Saturday and sleep a night in a hotel.

After a restless nights sleep we woke up around 7am, ate the continental breakfast, and went to the Albany airport to check in.

The flight from Albany to Newark was pretty uneventful, one of my checked bags was one half pound less than the maximum limit (50lbs), I was pretty happy about that.

I ate at Newark and I am writing this aboard the 777 somewhere east of Hudson Bay, it is -72 F outside right now. We have travelled 1000 miles and cruising at 564 mph right now at 32,000ft. We will be withing 60 miles of the North Pole before we start heading south again. I'm so lucky I have an outlet for my laptop, but there are also personal movie screens for each person.

I just had the in-flight dinner and it was alright, steak, rice, and salad as I looked over the frozen wasteland of northern Quebec
-5:22 pm EST


I'm watching the sun come up over the Siberian tundra as I hit the halfway point of the flight. I've been staring out the window for almost an hour, awestruck with the sight of all the ice, snow, and cloud formations. I napped for a little while earlier, hopefully i can get a little more sleep soon.
-11:09 pm EST