Day One - arrival in HK

This is the first official entry from Hong Kong. The flight to Denver and San Francisco were uneventful. the 14-hour flight from San Francisco was quite an experience...Business Class is the way to go! We were given socks for the ride so we could take off our shoes along with a tooth brush and tooth paste. The seats recline almost all the way back, so that was nice as well. The first couple of hours were occupied with a lunch that included warm nuts, 2 salads, dinner rolls, ribs & potato's, and cheesecake for dessert. After lunch I slept for about an hour then decided to try to stay awake for awhile. Basically everyone else on the flight was sleeping but I managed to stay awake doing some BSF and reading a couple of books...Blue Like Jazz and Passion for Jesus. I also spent a few hours going through the travel guides from Kathy & Orin. My co-worker brought DVD's for every season of the office so I spent about an hour watching several episodes. That was about a 7-hour stretch and by then I was having a hard time staying awake so I took a 2-hour nap. When I woke up we still had 3 hours to go but the time went by fast as I was back to reading and getting up to walk around. All in all, the flight was a lot better than I was anticipating.

Upon arriving in Hong Kong, we took a shuttle to our Hotel which is on the island of Kowloon. The Swifts will appreciate that we can see the lazer shows at night from our hotel. The hotel is very nice and everything is first class. For dinner (keep in mind that we were eating dinner at 8am KC time) we decided to stick to American food. We went to Dan Ryan's and had ribs! I offered to try some Chinese food close to our hotel but both of the guys I was traveling concurred that we will get plenty of that over the next 2 weeks.