Sunday, December 13, 2009

Hong Kong

We had a great week in Hong Kong. We had to head down to get our Thai Visas so that we could stay in Thailand more than 30 days. We figured while we were there we would relax and enjoy the city. I have been there many times and it is one of my favorite cities and because I talked about it so much, Clark wanted to see Hong Kong too. And his conclusion is the same as mine..he loved it too! While we were there we went to Hong Kong Disney Land. Sadie is a little too young for it but we thought we just couldn't pass up the opportunity because we didn't know when we would get back to Hong Kong again. Sadie did enjoy her time there and even got to ride two rides. We wanted to take some pictures with Disney characters while we were there and chose the "gou gou" (dog) because we knew that Sadie would like them even better than Mickey and Minnie (and it helped that the line was shorter!) and she did love it until she got close up then she held on to me tight!
Here Sadie is on her very first amusement park ride. I got to ride this one with Clark and Sadie and then the second ride they got to ride without me. It was a small car and Clark said Sadie loved it! We then went to see the Lion King show and Sadie loved it even though she fell asleep close to the end. We stayed about 4 hours and had a good time, we are so glad we went!

Here we are in Tarazan's Tree House

We went to the Peak one night. The Peak is a famous place in Hong Kong where you can see the whole city. We were a bit disappointed because it was cloudy but we still had a good time riding the tram up to the top and eating dinner at Bubba Gumps and at least being able to take a few pictures.

We took Sadie to the park one day to let her play because she never really gets to play on playgrounds in China. The one in our apartment complex is just so dirty and really not toddler friendly. She had a great time and even made new friends!

And here we are standing in Kowloon looking back over Hong Kong Island.
Overall, we had a wonderful time! It was hard on all of us because Sadie's schedule was so off. But worth it :) Sadie is used to going down at 6:15 each night and sleeping until 7:30 the next morning. It was near impossible to do that while we were doing so much. And then she had to be in the same room with us and that was so hard on her because if she woke up she would see us. Anyway, I digress, she is off on her schedule! Pray that after a few days here in Bangkok, she will be back to normal. Poor child has slept in so many different places, it gets hard!

We arrived here yesterday and spent today settling in. We are staying in a guest house facility where others are staying. It has been nice to meet new people. We have a 2 bedroom, 2 bath apartment. It's nice and big and it has been fun for Sadie to run around. Today we went over to the hospital to check it out and it is super nice! Way nicer than our hospital in America. I head to the doc on Tuesday, so I will give you an update on baby Jackson then. I am 36 weeks now, so we should be meeting him pretty soon!!

Sorry this post is random, just wanted to catch you guys up on our travels and add a few pictures for the family!!

We love you!

3 comments:

Erica said...

SO glad that Clark loves HK too! How can you not!! Can't wait to hear how your doc appt goes!! Hugs!

Jodie said...

Looks like good times! Keep us posted. You're belly looks about ready!

Sara Beth said...

Oh Hong Kong. I wish we could have seen you guys...we were just there too. But we probably left when you guys arrived. That's our favorite family picture spot too right there by the Star Ferry and Ocean Terminal. Glad you did all the fun tourist things. Is that Hong Kong Park you're at? Its a good one and the Botanical Gardens right by it. We went to Kowloon park one day when we were there and the kids had a great time playing too. Parks in HK are so fun!