Leg 2: Hong Kong

Welcome to the big city, loads of people, buildings stacked on every square inch, and jet lag! Amazing how such little space is occupied by so much. A bustling, relatively clean city, that is easy to navigate. Signs and directions are in English and most people can help you if you ask. The air was dirty, foggy, or both so visibility wasn't fantastic, but still decent.

We used points to stay at the Conrad and had an fantastic water view! There was a music and lights show one evening and we watched from our room. We took the ferry across and wandered around the shopping district, streets, parks, rode the world's longest escalator, took a trolley ride to the highest point to look out, and watched monkey's swing and play at the zoo. We packed in as much as we could in a couple days, while still taking time to rest and adjust to the time difference. It was a fun city and we enjoyed our time there. Didn't buy anything, despite guys on every corner talking up their custom suits, watches, you  name it. Totally annoying, but they were focusing on Conor, so it made me laugh. : )


Our favorite feature was the statue that reminded us of Hazel pointing with one finger. She would've been a real hit!!!!

He loves it when I take his picture in public. haha! Already sweating. I still had my jacket on. ; )

I thought these red trees and Christmas door were funky and wanted my pic.

World's largest Apple store, or at least was. Built over the street and several floors. Check out all the people in line in the morning! 

On the escalator. Below is the escalator from the side of the street. It was steep!

Really quite pretty and lots of green, trees, and park areas amongst the city.

Pretty church neatly tucked in the buildings. Surprisingly there were quite a few churches we spotted.

Luckily the air cleared the 2nd day in Hong Kong so we waited in line a couple hours to ride trolley up. Great 360 views!