Day one, Hong Kong

We immediately take note that every taxi is exactly the same, a 4-door red and white Toyota. Like little bugs buzzing around the streets. A bit of a order begins to esstablish itself on the streets. Reminds me of a song, where have all the taxis goine, long time...The other thing we notice walking around is that while there is a great deal of surface contruction, fixing a pot hole here, a sidewalk realignment and so on, we can't see any new big buildings going up. Has Hong Kong reached its capactiy?

We decide to get the exercising thing out of the way on this, our first day. Neither of us are avid anythingers and here we are walking up, down, up and down again all over town. More steps than I have done in the last year....all of the last year. So we will ache later, but we have broken ourselves in. Gearing up I suppose to all those Thai massages! Can't wait.

We have found a tiny little restaurant that has custom printed sugars. We have talked about doing this forever, but supposed it would be too expensive. Well we have searched, and it is not. We shall supply sugars all across the central valley with Hotel Charlotte on them!

We found our new favorite breakfast place, unlimited coffee. The best!

Victoria Peak tram and the peak, which really should be explored in the afternoons after the fog has burned off. It was cloudy, misty, smoggy when we were up there, but several hours later the whole bay is bright and clear.

Lunch was one of those prix fix places which with wine was still $70. Will have to budget for dinner. We have come up with a dozen ways to serve price-fixed at the Hotel Charlotte and might start that upon return. Good ideas are popping up daily. Glad we take these trips, they are very refreshing for opening the mind to new ways to do stuff!