I'll be home for christmas..........
Dec. 24th, 2003 07:50 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaitouToday I tried to find the Jade Market, but without much luck. This is probably a good thing for my checkbook though. Then I went back across the harbor to Hong Kong Island. I gawked at the very tall buildings. Then I gawked at the mall with the Mrs. Fields and the mall Santa for even longer. (thanks to construction I had to pass through a mall to get to where I wanted to be) Unfortunately Mrs. Fields was fresh out of cookies without nuts. Nuts.
Then I went to the Flagstaff Museum of Teaware, which is also the oldest Colonial building in Hong Kong. It was a remarkably cool museum, half of it was antique and ancient teaware with displays talking about all the different methods of making tea. I bought myself a beautiful little set, with a small yixing teapot and cups along with a few types of tea. I thought that the Jasmine Pearl tea would be a good souviner for the office.
I wandered around Hong Kong Park for a little bit, which was very nice, and saw no less than three bridal parties. Or was it four? I saw a sign that pointed to a building for marriage licences not far away. Also saw lots of sunbathing turtles.
Then I came back to the hotel and had afternoon tea. It would have been nice if they'd actually given me tea instead of water though.
I leave for Osaka tommorrow about noon, which should give me time to slip back over to the museum store for the presents I didn't have time to get on Tuesday. I haven't seen everything I wanted to see these past few days, but I'm very happy about what I did see. Hong Kong is a lovely city. It's Cosmopolitanness makes me think of New York, but it feels brighter and more open. Must be the feng shui.
That all being said. It's Christmas Eve and I have to ask myself why I'm such an idiot. I could have gone home and I should have. I feel lonely and cut off, and I have only myself to blame.
Then I went to the Flagstaff Museum of Teaware, which is also the oldest Colonial building in Hong Kong. It was a remarkably cool museum, half of it was antique and ancient teaware with displays talking about all the different methods of making tea. I bought myself a beautiful little set, with a small yixing teapot and cups along with a few types of tea. I thought that the Jasmine Pearl tea would be a good souviner for the office.
I wandered around Hong Kong Park for a little bit, which was very nice, and saw no less than three bridal parties. Or was it four? I saw a sign that pointed to a building for marriage licences not far away. Also saw lots of sunbathing turtles.
Then I came back to the hotel and had afternoon tea. It would have been nice if they'd actually given me tea instead of water though.
I leave for Osaka tommorrow about noon, which should give me time to slip back over to the museum store for the presents I didn't have time to get on Tuesday. I haven't seen everything I wanted to see these past few days, but I'm very happy about what I did see. Hong Kong is a lovely city. It's Cosmopolitanness makes me think of New York, but it feels brighter and more open. Must be the feng shui.
That all being said. It's Christmas Eve and I have to ask myself why I'm such an idiot. I could have gone home and I should have. I feel lonely and cut off, and I have only myself to blame.
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Airline Prices
Date: 2003-12-24 11:24 pm (UTC)+++
Current roundtrip prices from LAX to Osaka or Tokyo, as posted on the travel boards at the Mistuwa:
For between 1 Mar - 20 Mar
Japan & All Nippon: $552
Northwest & United: $555
Singapore: $520
Korean: $385
Thai: $420
Varig: $482
Then the prices go up for the last month of March, and they don't have April posted yet. The prices are posted by JTB USA, and they do have a search engine thingie for flying into/out of other Airports. But I think it'd prolly be eaiser/cheaper to fly into/out of LAX.
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So, hey. Maybe some of us will be out to see you soon, ne? And if you need prices for a sooner time period, lemme know and I can go and looks those up too. Need to pick up munchies soon anyway. ^__^
((GLOMPS!))