Christmas 2009 Trip - Hong Kong

Some of you may or may not have heard that we missed our flight on Dec 10. We arrived at the airport just an hour before departure time. If all of us were holding e-tickets we would have made it on, but Janey's, Katelyn, & Kirsten were paper tickets, therefore we had to update our tickets to e tickets due to changes made to our routing. There was not enough time to make this change and get on the flight. Fortunately, there was a lady (Joyce) at the ticket counter which was extremely nice (for an Air Canada person at least). She went the extra mile to get us out of this disappointing and hopeless situation. We're not saying that she got us on our original flight, but she did manage to book us on the next one out the following day. The normal (and proper) procedure would've been to call Aeroplan and have them book us something, but we knew that wouldn't be possible cause when I called originally, there were no seats available after the 10th. So yeah, 3 cheers for Joyce!!

So the next day we arrived at the airport at 2.5 hrs early to make sure we don't miss our flight again. While we were lining up to check-in, Joyce came over and told everyone this line was for people who already have a boarding pass. We didn't but when she saw us she told us to wait there and personally helped us with the check in. To be honest, while we were heading to the airport Janey was hoping that Joyce would be there to help us so that there would be no other surprise complications. She's thank-ful for "The Secret" working for her once again. I was thank-ful that we told Joyce yesterday that we would write a nice compliment letter for her.





The flight was better than I had thought mostly because of Air Canada's upgraded entertainment system with Movies on demand. Most of the time, we're too busy to keep up with the latest movies, so its usually on flight that we do our catch-up. Katelyn was being very good and Kirsten slept through most of it.

Upon landing, we met up with our friend Karen in HK. She took us to a famous place "Under the Bridge Chili Crab" to eat crab. The crab was OK in my opinion, I think our crabs in Vancouver are much better. The price was not cheap either so don't take our food for granted guys.




Afterwards we headed over to Times Square to shop for a camcorder. We realized it would be cheaper to get it in Vancouver, so gone are the days when people use to go back to HK to get electronics.

We heard on the news later that at the same time we were there, there was an idiot who threw acid down the street from the apartment building above. We were only a few blocks away from this, but fortunately not the same street. 21 people got hurt and one lady got burnt very badly. There had been 4 similar accidents in Mong Kwok in the last 3-4 months and the police suspect it to be the same person. They said this guy chooses the busiest location to throw the acid. I hope the police find this person soon and stop him from causing anymore injuries. I can't help but wonder is this an accident or a cause of bad act? Does accident even exist or is it just cause and effect? But that's a topic for another discussion.



The next day, we headed out to the airport for our flight to Bali. Yes, we only stayed one night in HK. It was really a quickie in-out to visit our friend Karen.