Day 5

Thursday, April 1, 2009

So last night, I woke up at about 4am to video conference with my group members for a class that we are giving a presentation in. It's amazing what technology can do. After the conference, I was up a little longer chatting with people because it was day time there. Then I went back to bed. 

Today Jason came. My mom and I went to pick up our dad from his office and then we went to the airport to pick  him up. I had only ever gone to the airport via train before but the drive was really cool. They have some really cool bridges that I took some pictures of. 

There was also really cool machinery that they use. These are cranes that they use in the shipping yards.

We went back to the apartment to drop off his stuff and so dad could go back to work and Jason and my mom and I went out to the house where the quilting club was going on. Their house is AMAZING!! It is 5 stories, made out of stone and right on the coast. They have a pool that overlooks the ocean. It was crazy how big and nice this house was especially in Hong Kong China, where the majority of the people live in apartment buildings because there isn't room for everyone to live in houses. It was cool to see and fun to see all the ladies that I love again. 

After that we went back  home and dad was still there doing some work from home and we convinced him to come to lunch with us. We went to a place called Fat Angelo's, which serves Italian food. I know it's funny that we are in China eating Italian food. But it was a fun place to eat and after that, we walked with my dad to his office and he introduced us to his secretary Jennifer, who was really nice. His office is really nice and has a beautiful view. You can see the harbor from his office and we talked about how we were going to go watch the laser light show that night. 

So then we went home and hung out for a bit and waited until it was time to go to the laser light show.We walked down to my dad's office to get him and then walked to the star ferry that would take us across the harbor to the other side where we would watch it.

This is my mom and dad and brother Jacob on the boat ride over. 

This is Jason and I on the way over on the ferry. We had to take this picture a few times because the first few looked so bad! Can you tell Jason is jet lagged?

When we got to the other side of the harbor, we found a good spot to see and to take pictures. Then we waited for the show to start. 

This is a picture that I took during the light show. It really is amazing and it was funny because it looks light at the top of the picture which is the lights reflecting off the pollution because the pollution it so bad in Hong Kong. 

There is a video of the light show that I have been trying to post but the internet connection here isn't very good so it's pending. It really is pretty cool. It was windy though so that is what you will hear in the background with the music when I finally post it. 

After the light show we went back home and finally let Jason go to bed. He did a really good job staying awake though. I decided I wanted to go to bed too because I was going to have to get up at midnight to video conference my Educational Psychology class for the practical part of my exam.