Friday, March 30, 2007

Old Friends are the best!

Jann, Mei Li and I started our day walking everywhere.
We walked from the Hong Kong side (Garden Plaza Hotel) to the underground.
We went up and down at least 5000 sets of stairs and escalators and made several transfers and got to the Star Ferry to go to Kowloon. The ride was great. That area is quite crowded.
jann took us by Ned Kelly's Last Stand and Jimmy's Kitchen- where he spent many an evening back in the late 70's-80's. Oh! and the most impressionable thing we saw was an old Chinese man- way old- almost dead- except that he growled once at apparently nobody and frightened everyone around. He suddenly got up and walked across the sidewalk towards the trash can and was pulling at his pants to apparently get ready to pee in the trash can- or perhaps look for something in it....We high tailed it out of there. Lots of questions later, Mei Li decided she liked the old man when he was sitting down, not peeing in the trash can. (sorry no photo)
We did catch up with Jann's old friend, Alan Kwok- he is a sweetheart and treats us like royalty when we come to town. They have known each other over 28 years!
He picked us up in his new Lexus 460!!! Now, THAT was a good smell! He treated us to dinner up on the Peak and we got photos over Hong Kong. The funiest moment ever was when Alan ordered dessert for he and Jann. Mei Li had been asleep all through dinner and I did not want dessert. The waiter asked him a question and he motioned back and forth that the dessert was for he and Jann. The waiter asked again to be sure if it was not for Jann and Me.
When the waiter brought out a Huge bowl of ice cream with a giant white heart on top, for Jann and Alan to share- we all died laughing.

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