First class travel and stuff

Well we made it to Hong Kong! Miss Melissa, you thought I was bad not packing till the morning of the trip, well we nearly didn’t go at all. Aunt Karen and I were investigating the Elite Pass Club and Aunt Karen had to call her bank AND her credit card company. Yes you guessed it, she hadn’t told them that she was going to China. While we waited they called our flight, about 10 minutes later they were calling FINAL BOARDING FOR THE FLIGHT. We ran and showed up huffing and puffing just like the big bad wolf. We were really scared for a couple of minutes that we weren’t going to make the plane.
Ok, BusinessFirst is the way to fly! The food never stopped coming and it was sooooo good!

Karen talks about the taxi ride to our hotel and the hotel itself. The only thing she doesn’s mention is that when we went for our swim this morning of July 5, 2008 we got in and it started raining. But it ended soon and the sun came out and it was HOT!

We took the train into Guangzhou this morning and it was wonderful to see some of the country. We were met at the train station and were taken to the Victory Hotel on Shamian Island. It brought back so many memories of Dani and made me miss you toots! We checked in with our Holt guide Catherine and then did some errands. We went back to our room and promptly fell asleep for 3 hours. Considering that we had gotten up at 3am that was pretty good. I called home at 7pm and talked to the most wonderful girl in the world. DANI and my mom. That was wonderful to hear voices from home.

We ate dinner at Lucy’s, I had a burrito and Aunt Karen had fish and chips. It had cooled down somewhat and we walked for a bit before coming back to the hotel. We need to get some sleep because we have our orientation tomorrow at 9:30 and a full day after that. We hope to take a Pearl River cruise tomorrow night.