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Ivan In Hong Kong - Day 1

My cousin Ivan came in from Thailand. Actually he's been travelling Asia for 40+ days and this is his last stop before heading home. Since I am still new to Hong Kong I have to ask a few more experience friends to take us around so I made arrangements with Ada to meet up afterwork. Ivan got in the previous night but I didn't hear from him right away. We we spoke briefly he told me the place they are staying in is out in Sha Tin. The place is apparently pretty small so he wanted to stay with me a night. His mission in Hong Kong was to shop like crazy for himself and his sisters. He wanted to be efficent with his time. We made arrangements to meet over at Tin Hau MTR station after I was done work. I didn't recognize him right away, well I kind of did. He was so tanned from his travels, he looked almost like a different person. We headed back to my place to drop off his stuff and we ended up downloading some of his pictures onto my notebook. I got a good feel from his pictures about the different places he travelled to. This will help me plan my trip a bit better out in Asia.

We headed back to Causeway Bay and did some more shopping. I actually ended up doing the shopping because I bought 2 more t-shirts to give to my brother. My brother loves stealing my t-shirts. When I approach him about it, he passionately replies "What are you talking about?! You gave this to me!" So now Ivan will be delivering 4 back to him.

We went to a Vietnamese style restaurant tonight and it was pretty good. Our salty lime drink turned out to be some ginger ale with a lime or something in it. It pretty much tasted like soda. The food was pretty good though, another good choice by Ada. When I was going out to eat with Erine and Phoebe maybe I had not adjusted but it was a little harder for me to accept the food. We did a lot of walking around in the area and I kind of wanted to go to the Peak but it started to rain so we called it off. Ivan was pretty tired from his travels so we headed back a bit early chatted and off to bed since I had to work. Tomorrow we'll be meeting with Priscilla.

posted by Tempest7 @ 00:00