HongKong!

It's been a while since I posted, mostly because I've only been visiting the same old same old locations. But now; now I've got some fun stuff to share ;-)

My flight was CMH to Newark, and then Newark direct to HongKong, which was nice because I had no connections overseas. It was 16hrs direct, which for me was no problem because I'm one of the lucky ones who takes this as a blessing to sleep- and I got 10 full hours of sleep! The flight went straight up out of newark, into Canada, and right over the top of the world- A first for me! I have never flown direct over the north pole, normally when I've been to Singapore or Dubai it just skirts the arctic circle, so that was cool to see on the maps. I arrived Friday evening, and went right to the hotel, and to bed so that I'd be ready to Sight-see myself around the city on my free day Saturday. I always fly in a few days early to get myself on the time zone so I can be fresh and excited for my trainings. It's a good thing I did because it has been a killer this time. HK is 13 hrs ahead of Eastern Standard time, and my body has no idea what is going on. I wake up at 5am and my stomach is like "FEED ME" lol. And by 4pm I'm dizzy and need to lay down. Hoping that today will be better.

Since I was up before the sun, I got dressed and down to the harbor early- it was rainy and cloudy, but was so nice and quiet! Got some good pictures, and walked along what they call the avenue of the stars- kind of like a hollywood walk of stars for HK movie stars. Then I took the subway over to the financial center. That is where the super tall skyscraper is- which is, for all you batman fans like me, the tower where Batman (Dark Knight Rises) sky jumped onto the building and then "hooked" Lau out of the upper story building with the airplane to bring him back to Gotham city. So cool that I got to see the real building! The financial district is where "THE" mall is- IFC. So of course I had to go check it out, and do a little shopping. Then subway was crazy huge, and extremely busy for a Saturday morning. With this being one of the most populated places on the earth- they need efficient mass transit, and this was very impressive.

New starbucks mug is a must! and the shoe store was a design by a favorite- Zaha Hadid who did that big "tree" garden in Singapore. The picture of the market was just a random place that I was walking down the street and at first I was like "eww" but then I realized that this is what is TRUE Hong Kong so I went in and look around. It was soooo packed with people, shops selling everything from cheap plastic sunglasses, to snakes, to dim sum, it was wild. Now today I head off to Macau! I'll be in Macau for the next 7 days, training, merchandising the new store, and then opening our first store in CHINA!!!!!!!!! SO super excited to experience this!