Day #5 Leaving Hong Kong

Today we hop on a flight up north to Beijing, where we will enjoy temperatures 20 degrees cooler than here in Hong Kong. We get to Beijing around 6PM and check into our hotel after meeting our guide. We'll catch some dinner and then get ready for some sight seeing tomorrow around Beijing.

We are just a short four days away from meeting our daughter for the first time. I think when we leave Hong Kong to meet up with the other adoptive families, it will finally hit me that my waiting is coming to an end. This adoption trip is so different than Vietnam. Our family dynamic is different. We are parents already, so I think about Sabian all the time. Every time I see a little boy his age with that black hair and those dark eyes, I stare. Especially if they're being funny or cute like the one on the MTR who was fast asleep on his daddy's lap snuggled up against his chest. Or the one yesterday wearing his preschool backpack walking alongside his daddy, who kept reaching up to hold his daddy's hand or hold onto his daddy's pant pocket.

I'm satisfied with the sights we saw, although I would've liked to have see the fishing village on stilts in Tai O, and maybe one of the rare pink dolphins there as well. Although, based on Aberdeen Harbor, it might've been pretty disheartening to see the conditions those dolphins live in and know the reason for their decline.

I would've gone to the other market in Wan Chai with the fish and sea creatures still flopping about, as they ponder their last moments before getting consumed. I did totally love the one wet market we saw on the corner of Gage St. in Central with those clams wildly opening and closing, and of course those silver fish laying out in a dish, just pulled from their water, flopping crazily in an attempt to get back in!

We had an interesting conversation with someone yesterday at lunchtime. He was a 31 year old single Asian guy from New York, who lives in Central currently for the past couple years, but also knew all about downtown Dallas because his employer put him up at the Ritz when he'd travel there. He pretty much confirmed our assumption that HK is the place to be if you're young, single, have money, a good job, and want to live the fast life. There are tons of young fashionable people who walk fast and are on three mobile devices at once. In fact, if you're not, you're either a tourist, or elderly person.

More Later, I'm gonna try a Skype with Sabian.