Hi all:
First I want to thank Ms. Johnson's students who have emailed us. It may be difficult for us to write to you individually for a while, but just know that we are receiving your emails and will respond eventually. Right now John has to go out and get a grounded adapter to plug in our computer. We are running off of memory so i have to make this quick. I have a history question for you. Hong Kong was on a lease to what country for 99 years? Do you know when the lease expired and when the territory went back to PR (Peoples Republic) of China? Over what issue did China originally lose Hong Kong? How much was the lease payment? Stay tuned for answers in the next post.
Yesterday the three of us had an adventure traveling to Hong Kong Disney via Hong Kong MTR-the rail line. We took a taxi from the hotel to the Kowloon station and took a train that got us to the Sunny Bay Station we crossed the platform and hopped on the Disney transit train that took us to Disney is about 5 minutes. The whole train ride was about 25 min total! It was easier than going to Anaheim. Hong Kong Disney is a huge destination for tourists from Mainland China. There were not too many American tourists there. There was a huge fascination with Sienna and people were touching her face, hair and tickling her tummy. She was being offered candy by everyone and stickers from the employees. In fact we were told to ride again on the Autopia ride without waiting again as a gift to us! It was even more strange when the characters from the parade stopped to look at Sienna and hug her and no one else!
The park itself is a mini-version with a scaled down tomorrow land, adventure land and fantasy land. Joe, we looked for Asian Princess dolls in each store but they don't carry anything like that just the standard Caucasian Belle, Ariel, Aurora, Cinderella and Snow white fare. It was a great park for Sienna's age group. They did have Space Mountain and but I didn't ride. The highlight was the amazing Lion King show. It was a small version of the Broadway play. The dancing, singing and costumes were just fantastic. Sienna pretty much passed out on the way back.
Today we met our group and took the Hong Kong City tour. John and I had done this tour previously 6 years ago when we traveled with Kiwanis. We again went to Victoria Peak (very overcast), Stanley Mkt, the Jewelry factory, and had Sampan ride through Aberdeen. After, we all had a dim sum lunch at a delightful restaurant near our hotel. We were not too focused on the tour and did very little shopping as our attention is on traveling tomorrow to get Brooke. We are leaving the hotel early in the morning and our luggage has to be out by 7am.
We are ready for the whirlwind!
First I want to thank Ms. Johnson's students who have emailed us. It may be difficult for us to write to you individually for a while, but just know that we are receiving your emails and will respond eventually. Right now John has to go out and get a grounded adapter to plug in our computer. We are running off of memory so i have to make this quick. I have a history question for you. Hong Kong was on a lease to what country for 99 years? Do you know when the lease expired and when the territory went back to PR (Peoples Republic) of China? Over what issue did China originally lose Hong Kong? How much was the lease payment? Stay tuned for answers in the next post.
Yesterday the three of us had an adventure traveling to Hong Kong Disney via Hong Kong MTR-the rail line. We took a taxi from the hotel to the Kowloon station and took a train that got us to the Sunny Bay Station we crossed the platform and hopped on the Disney transit train that took us to Disney is about 5 minutes. The whole train ride was about 25 min total! It was easier than going to Anaheim. Hong Kong Disney is a huge destination for tourists from Mainland China. There were not too many American tourists there. There was a huge fascination with Sienna and people were touching her face, hair and tickling her tummy. She was being offered candy by everyone and stickers from the employees. In fact we were told to ride again on the Autopia ride without waiting again as a gift to us! It was even more strange when the characters from the parade stopped to look at Sienna and hug her and no one else!
The park itself is a mini-version with a scaled down tomorrow land, adventure land and fantasy land. Joe, we looked for Asian Princess dolls in each store but they don't carry anything like that just the standard Caucasian Belle, Ariel, Aurora, Cinderella and Snow white fare. It was a great park for Sienna's age group. They did have Space Mountain and but I didn't ride. The highlight was the amazing Lion King show. It was a small version of the Broadway play. The dancing, singing and costumes were just fantastic. Sienna pretty much passed out on the way back.
Today we met our group and took the Hong Kong City tour. John and I had done this tour previously 6 years ago when we traveled with Kiwanis. We again went to Victoria Peak (very overcast), Stanley Mkt, the Jewelry factory, and had Sampan ride through Aberdeen. After, we all had a dim sum lunch at a delightful restaurant near our hotel. We were not too focused on the tour and did very little shopping as our attention is on traveling tomorrow to get Brooke. We are leaving the hotel early in the morning and our luggage has to be out by 7am.
We are ready for the whirlwind!
2 comments:
That's so funny how everyone responded to Sienna. Is it her coloring? Juliet gets that a lot from Grandmas who have immigrated from Spanish speakng countries.
The pictures are great!
Here are my guesses. I think the U.S. held the first half of the lease and it was over around 1995. If it wasn't the U.S. then it was Great Britain? I don't remember why. I wonder if any of my students will know. I'll direct them to ask their History teacher.
So tomorrow is the BIG DAY!!!!! Can't wait to hear all about it.
Awesome photos. It sounds like you are having a great time. I can't wait to see tomorrow's photos. Have a great Gotcha Day!
Joe, Tammy, and the tribe.
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