Hong Kong!

Well it is very early in the AM here. Wonderful flight, slept over 8 hours on the flight. Had a great veggie meal then watched Alice in Wonderland, talked with the lady across the isle and then off to nap land. The woman across the isle is Canadian but has lived in Thailand the past 10 years starting first one and now running 7 homes for orphans. She is clearly hooked on what she does and has been gone so long that she has to enter as a 'guest' back to Canada. No glitches so far in travel plans. Cathay Pacific managed to get me an isle seat even after the entire flight was full. Thanks to Jiasong and TaiMing for taking me to dinner in Vancouver and getting me to the flight several hours earlier than everyone else, I was first on the list for seat changes. I hate being in the center seat, and fortunately did not have to be. Casey and I are good travel mates with lots to talk about. He has finished his third year of medical school and is very well traveled so the conversations are endless. I am looking forward to this time together just to catch up on the past few years when he has been so busy studying. It is inspiring to see a highly motivated, talented and caring person setting out to a career in medicine. Can't wait for Matthias and Andrea to get far enough along that we can start to do projects together!

Hong Kong is such an easy place to be. Great food, clean, well organized as always. Easy to like. Breakfast at the same place that Jiasong and Taiming and I always eat in the airport. Not enough time to go into town and it is too bad beautiful, clear day. You can see the gondola going up to the huge Buddha statue on top the mountain here on Lantau Island, the hydrofoil going by from Macao. Beautiful to day. Almost time to get back on the plane and head to Denpasar, Bali.