Woke up at 6am, showered and packed our bags. Grabbed breakfast from the front desk of our hotel (350 yen for 5 pastries and an iced coffee) and headed to the transit line stop right around the corner of our hotel. We waited 20 minutes for our Narita express train. No changes, just 2 hours to Narita Airport. Its amazing how japanese people will fall into what appears to be a deep sleep then suddenly wake up as the doors open for their stop. This happened numerous times throughout our 2 hour journey. Got to the airport at 915 for our 1055 flight. Got check in and found out we could carry on both of our bags. SCORE! Got 2 seats in the middle 4 section of the plane. And no one else was in our row so we sat on each end.
About 30 minutes into our 3 hour flight we got beef and noodles as a lunch served. It was actually decent too! Eastern Asia Airlines was pretty sweet for treating us well. Landed in shanghai on time and got put in the den as we were transfers without visas. Went through our own security again before being released to rome about shanghai airport for an hour. Nothing to see or do.
Boarded our next flight unsure if we were going to get fed again (it would make for a cheap day of eating if we did). Turbulence was very bad almost the entire flight. But sure enough, an hour in-- we got fed. Rice with baby shrimp and a hot dog baked into the middle of a table roll (chinese corndog?). Landed. No problem. Found our way to the train station. No problem. Asked directions on how to get to our hotel, which was about 10 minutes from the station through the ghetto. Droplets of who knows what fell every few seconds from the sky, and loads of beat-up looking people lurked around. But, alas, we found our hotel-- which is quite nice actually! Air conditioning was turned down to 20 degrees celsius and we have our own window overlooking mangkok. It was 745 and we wanted to see the city, so we hopped the train to hong kong island in search of Gary Blanchards suggestion of Peak tram/tower. That took some backstepping and wrong turns before finding it. Went up to the skydeck where even in the rainy season with a fog, we could see the spectacular lights of hong kong below. It started raining while we were there, so we went to bubba gump for an appetizer and drink. Ordered the all-american sampler (loads of shrimps) which came with 35hk$ coors lights. But they were out of coors light and refused to sub another beer. Tried to cancel the dinner order and do something else. But we couldn't do that either. Eventually they allowed us to sub heinikens (I would have much rather had the coors) and we enjoyed our shrimp overlooking the lights of hong kong city.
Afterwards we headed easily back to central station and to our hotel where we decided we were not going to set an alarm and we were going to do the cable cars and a night cruise through the harbor. Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile
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