We love Hong Kong!

As you can read from the title, we had a fantastic time on our Hong Kong trip. In fact, it's my new favorite city! It's clean, there are easy and affordable ways of traveling around the islands, nice parks, the people are great and speak English, and the food is awesome. The best tasting shrimp and dim sum I've ever eaten. I think the most striking feature of Hong Kong would be its scenery. It's located on a beautiful harbor with ENORMOUS skyscrapers and gorgeous green hills as a back drop. Not to mention, the neon signs in the alleyway and streets. 

Hong Kong Disney was great, although a lot smaller than the California and Florida ones. Gabby had a fun time, but really had no clue what was going on yet so we'll have to go back. The poor thing is still scared of people dressed up in costumes (i.e. Santa Claus) so when we took her to see Pluto, she freaked out. She did go on the train and the "It's a Small World" ride. She LOVED the Lion King show, as did Travis and I. 

We met up with some old friends from Beijing for lunch on one of the days and enjoyed a good time at the Peak, which is a look-out spot on the hill far above the harbor and buildings. Our hotel on Hong Kong island was incredible. As you can see in the video and the picture of Gabby, the view is insane. It was a splurge that probably won't happen again for a long time but we got the room half off and couldn't help ourselves. Shopping was good but really spendy. Food is expensive too, even the street food we ate. Maybe we didn't know the right places. We found a well stocked grocery store and loaded up on gluten free foods for Gabby and bought some things cheaper than in Beijing. The only small complaint I have is that it wasn't a stroller friendly city. I'm happy now with our super lightweight stroller, though- it made carrying it up and down stairs a breeze.

If you have time, check out the video. Travis made this the night we came back and it's his first video on the iMac. I'm really proud of all his hard work. I think it really captured our time there...

Click HERE to view the video.

New Gabby highlights. she's counting. Well, not really. She says, "two," "two," "TWO." As if she was saying one-two-three. She's been pointing out things she knows- like boat, car, flower, star, bike, moon, hat, doggie, etc. She does this while we're driving and reading books. It cracks me up. Her favorite food at the moment is curry, especially singapore noodles and she loves the Thomas the Tank Engine book, "Go Train, Go!"