Hong Kong!!!

Hello everyone! Yes, I am writing this from CHINA! I made it here alive. I can't believe this is my first blog post from over here. But I'll go ahead and get started :)

After landing in Hong Kong, we took a bus to our hotel and had the rest of the day to do whatever we wanted. The first thing we did was get some food. The food in Hong Kong is really amazing. I loved it. After that, we wandered around and went to some shops. But really, the shops in Hong Kong aren't that cheap. So if you ever go there, don't do too much shopping there. Then after that, we randomly found this beautiful park right in the middle of the city. It was the most beautiful park I've ever seen. 

We got rained on, but it was amazing. Fyi, the rain in Hong Kong is warm and amazing. 

Then the next day was Sunday and we spent the whole morning and afternoon on a tour. We went to Victoria's Peak. Let me tell you, it was the most breathtaking place ever.

 We then went to a fishing village. Apparently Jackie Chan makes a lot of movies there.

We also went to an amazing market and bought "I <3 HK" shirts. It's so cliche but I love it. And then me and Kaydee got pictures of our names translated into Chinese for way cheap. I loved it. I just love the city. I also got a tie for my missionary :) it's blue with chinese writing all over it. It was only 2 American dollars. Did I mention I love Hong Kong? :) 

We ended the day with the temple :) It was closed because it was Sunday. But I still can't believe I can say I've been to the Hong Kong temple. It really was beautiful. 

This was the whole group that went to China. My actual group only has 13 people including the head teacher. 

So we took the subway, as they call it, the MTR, to the temple and then me, Kaydee and our buddy Adam took it back all by ourselves. We felt pretty grown up :) Basically, I love Hong Kong and I think it's one of the most amazing cities ever. 

P.s. This is the best pastry ever. It's a coconut bun. It was our favorite thing to eat for breakfast everyday. We had this little bakery that we went to every morning :) we walked around the city like it was our city. Basically, we had the best time in Hong Kong :)

Korea!!!

I'm in Korea right now. WHAAAT???? Yeah, I know. It's pretty awesome :) I'm literally halfway around the world and it feels AWESOME!
Here's how it all went down.
We went from SLC to LAX which was about a 2 hour plane ride.
Then we went from LAX to Seoul Korea which was a 12 hour plane ride. And lemme tell ya, Korean Air is the best way to fly. Ever. Hands down.

Here's what we ate on Delta

And here's what we are on Korean Air:

The food totally exceeded my expectations. It was basically amazing.

We also got this stuff :)

Me and Kaydee actually slept most of the time. I took nyquil and it knocked me out for about 3 1/2 hours. The rest of the time I slept in spurts of 30 - 40 minutes, and then randomly waking up to the high pitched Korean voices coming over the intercom. 

Now we are just sitting in the airport for 3 hours until we leave AGAIN for Hong Kong :) which will be another 2 hours on a plane. 

I also find it pretty awesome that we completely skipped August 26th 2011. Yep, you heard me. It's August 27th. And we left on the 25th. Technically we experienced only 2 hours of the 26th. I'm officially a time traveler :)