Day 1 in Hong Kong

We started the day with a healthy breakfast, because it is the "most important meal of the day", per Julie. I call her Mom most of the time. She thinks I need lots of help, and she's probably right.

We ate in the hotel and took a taxi to Disneyland Hong Kong. (The ride was very interesting.)
We went to the Disneyland Hotel. It looks like the FL Grand Floridian.

Charles is staying there for the next few days with a group of media people. (He actually has to work while we are here). "Who knew?" From his balcony, we saw a maze below in a garden area of the hotel. In the maze we saw a father w/son & daughter running around in the maze with the mother, about 20 yds behind, making growling noises "trying to find them." It was so cute.

Disneyland HK is like the Magic Kingdom in Florida, but very much smaller. The Lion King is included here and a new show called The Golden Mickeys, which is usually shown only on the Cruise Ships. Other than most of the signs being in English and Mandarin, it looks about the same as FL.

Main Street

I got to meet my counterpart of Researcher here. (For those of you who don't know, that is what I do at Walt Disney World). She was totally awesome. They have chosen "American" names and her's is Queenie. She gave us pins from HKD and even gave me a "special" opening day pin. (Charles doesn't have one of those) Cool, huh? Her "boss" Dandy had visited FL for the last two weeks and I had met him and told him I was coming. Queenie found him and he met up with us in the Emporium. I got to meet the whole department even Dandy's boss Michelle. They were so nice. They gave us more pins and lots of stickers. And, of course,we shopped. (Julie has those pics. I'll include tomorrow).

We are staying in hotels that are connected by malls. You would never have to go outside again if you didn't choose to do so. Everything you can ever imagine is included in these malls - Clothing stores, restaurants, shoe stores; even a market at one end of the mall. I am in Charles' room @ JW Marriott and Sandy and Julie are at the Conrad on the other side of the mall. The mall area is sooooo large that they even have 3 Starbucks. Is that neat or what? Our room is smaller than Julie and Sandy's but equally nice. I have a fantastic view of the HK skyline. On Sat we will move to the Hollywood Hotel "on property" @ Disneyland. We saw it today and it looks verrrrry interesting. It is beside the park. We may have to visit the park again.

It has been a long day and I am once again running short of energy. Tomorrow we will "kind of" be on our own. Charles has graciously provided us with cards for the metro. We used it today coming back to the hotel from Disney. He was very proud of us. We didn't get lost once. Of course, he had been over the directions many times and we were "color coded" as to which train to take, but still we DID it ALL BY OURSELVES.

Stay tuned for the next "EXCITING" report of the many adventures of Sandy, Julie and me.