Thursday morning in Hong Kong

Thursday, April 13, 2006, 9:31 a.m.
One more day until Pam, Camryn and I return home.

By Terry R. Cassreino

HONG KONG - It’s morning here and we are dragging a bit.
Pam is still asleep and Camryn is sitting in the bed babbling on and on about something that I can’t understand (something about “A da” and “Ba ba ba ba ba”).
This, the Harbour Plaza Metropolis, is very ice. But our room is exceptionally small and narrow; it has a toilet, sink and shower but it doesn’t have a bath tub.
Our view, however, is nice. From our room on the 15th floor, we can see the Hong Kong harbor and several elevated highways that criss-cross the city below.
I’m not sure what we have on tap today. We are in no particular hurry, but we do plan to visit some nice shopping areas looking for bargains of any kind we can find.
The jury is still out, so to speak, on whether this is a good bargain. We’ll see. . .
Until then, here are a couple of photos.


PHOTO 1
Camryn sits on the bed this morning irritating the living hell out of Pam. First, Camryn grabbed a phone book and started slamming Pam on the head saying in Mandarin “Get up out of bed and fix me some breakfast.” When that didn’t work, she started banging her massive rattle on the top of Pam's head. Here, Camryn is in the process of humming her rattle at me and the camera. Then she laughed.












PHOTO 2
Here is a view from our 15th floor room at the Harbour Plaza Metropolis across from the train station in Kowloon. I don’t really know where the hell we are and I’m totally confused about directions. But we’ll manage somehow.


Photos and text copyright 2006 by Terry R. Cassreino.