We had an early, early start this morning. Some of the more ambitious Gentlemen stayed up all night at the Fackler home trying to stave of sleep and save it for the morning in order to more easily adjust to Hong Kong time. We got to Dulles by 5:20AM (5:20PM May 21 HK time) and leisurely boarded. Our connection in San Francisco threatened to be a tight 56 minutes but we benefited from a delay in SFO and made the flight with ease.
Alex, Dreddy and I waged a rummy war to start the flight and then John promptly fell asleep after lunch. Alex and I planned to nap through a few boring films at the start of the flight and then awake to enjoy Sherlock Holmes. Alas, try as I might I couldn't sleep during the first half of the flight. I read Game of Thrones and listened to techno music but nothing could do the trick. Indeed, only as the opening Sherlock sequence rolled did I find my eyelids getting heavy and I conked out, only to wake up just before dinner, with the WORST case of dry sleepy mouth ever. After a quick lavatory visit to brush my teeth and wake myself up, we deplaned.
We met Larry at the airport and then took the Express train into Hong Kong station in the amazing downtown Hong Kong. Wayne and I then were greeted by our host, Olivia Paul, and joined her and her mother for supper at the Spice House. After a delicious and bountiful meal, we dropped off our things at their home in the Mid-Levels. We then went out to Lan Kwai Fong, the escalator bar district, with Olivia and Wayne and I relived the London glory days with a Strongbow cider (yep.) Finally, we headed out around 1AM local time and are now looking forward, at 1:26AM to a good night's sleep (7 hours?!)
Tomorrow the group will meet in downtown and then head up to see the Peak of Mt. Victoria to enjoy panorama views of the city. In the meantime, we rest here:
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