A Life Less Ordinary

Life is funny. It always seems to happen that things eventually equal out. Here I am yesterday, having probably one of the best days of my life. I get to spend a beautiful day on the beach with my best friend and girlfriend Bekah. We relaxed at the pool, read a bit, and then got coconut oil massages. All courtesy of Bekah for my birthday. It was amazing, the first and best massage I’ve had and will have for awhile. We then had a great meal on the beach watching the sunset and capped it all off with 2 episodes of West Wing. Lovely. Then there’s today. I thought our flight from Krabi was at 11:05 am, it wasn’t. Try 12:05. We we’re 4 hours early getting to the airport. Oh well. Then we got to Bangkok and because Bekah’s next flight wasn’t for another six hours, she couldn’t check in. We had to say goodbye and boy was that not fun. Serves us right for having such an amazing preceding day. Love you honey!

I finally got to Hong Kong and here are some first impressions:

1. As expected, the airport was extremely efficient…with people wearing masks
2. No smells compared to Bangkok
3. There really are a ton of tall buildings here…Jesus
4. There really are a billion 7-11′s, but they’re all tiny
5. People speak less English than I thought, my first three encounters with others had the following responses, all to a question as to where the taxi’s are:

• “You go dis way and go levt and down stairs” in angry tones
• “Take the corridor to the end and take the elevator to G and queue for Kowloon taxis” by far the best
• “You go down” from smiling garbage lady
• And then a ton of yelling from the cab driver, not out of anger but I think just a general lack of hearing ability on his part

I guess we’ll see more as it was dark and late when I arrived so tomorrow will really be my first test. Till then, adieu.