Hong Kong!

Amazingly, me and Jasper managed to get into the plane on time, without setting off any alarms! They didn't even have to frisk me this time! We were sitting somwhere towards the back of this huge boeing 747. Jasper was sitting at the aisle (sp?) and I was sitting between him and some other guy. This being Jaspers first flight, he was somewhat disappointed by the small amount of legspace, especially with him being the giant he is. We quickly got over that when we noticed the remote/game pad that was fixed into the seat.
Unfortunately we had to wait until we were actually in the air before we could do anything with them. This, ofcourse, did not stop us from trying every single button on there to get em to work.
Jasper was a bit nervous for take-off, and was slightly worried about wether or not his ears would hurt much (he has quite sensitive ears), but he found the take-off to be enjoyable and his ears didn't hurt at all! Score!
As soon as our monitors sprang to life we went to the games screen to see if there was anything good on there. To our disappointment the only multiplayer game was mahjong, and though we tried it a few times and I read the instructions at least 5 times, we had no idea what was going and gave up. The other games were pretty standard ones, such as arkanoid, pong, tetris only then ripped and renamed.
The movie section was actually quite good, it had some new movies (Transformers 2, the new terminator, and some others I forgot). I ended up watching Moon (which was pretty good) and 2001:A Space odyssee, which I've been planning to see for quite a while and was quite thrilled to see on there. Unfortunately because the airconditioning made an ungodly noise and the sound quality of the movie was shaky at best, I gave up halfway through because I simply couldn't understand what people were saying.
The Tv section was quite well stocked, with some of my favourite shows on there (Simpsons, family guy, scrubs, big bang theory) though strangely no south park.
After about 8 hours I started to feel the strain, though technically it was only 10pm our time, I guess travelling is just a tiring thing to do, even if all you do is sit on your ass and watch movies.

When we arrived at Hong kong, 6 am local time, temperature: 27 degrees celsius, we wandered around the airport aimlessly a bit, before deciding to ask what way we were supposed to go to get into the city. After having to fill out a form about Swine flu and if we felt any of the symptons, we went through customs and got the first stamps on our passport (Yay!).
The train into town was easy to find and very swift. The town is a bit of a mess with highways going straight through the city.
We walked around for a while reversing the roles for a change and us acting like tourists with cameras at the ready to take pictures of anything that moves. All in all, I'd say we took some pretty horrible pictures.
Eventually we got really thirsty and decided to stop at some kind of local fast food chain (the McDonalds that was a few stores away was very tempting though). Since the menu was in chinese I ordered a nr. 3 with a coke purely on the picture that was next to it. I prayed for anything but fish. It was chicken (and quite nice!). We found out both of us were horrible at eating with chopsticks and were unsure if that big spoon we got was supposed to be used for eating the rice with or not. After looking at some of the other people we determined it was.

Afterwards we decided to stroll through town hoping to bump into an internet cafe (expecting them to be plentiful and easily spotted). After an hour walking through the heat we decided to ask some people if they knew were we could find an internet cafe. The woman working at the 7-11 didn't speak english, and the two cops we asked looked at us slightly puzzled. After we asked em again they said they didn' understand what we meant. "An internet cafe." "wha. . .?" "Internet *makes typing motion*" " Aaaah! Intelnet! Go straight and then 2nd on the left, a cafe called MX" After about 20 left turns later we decided to ask again at an english restaurant. This guy fortunately gave clear instructions and told us the cafe was called Mix. Not MX.

So that's where we are now. 10 hours till our plane leaves, we have already run out of stuff to do haha. Oh well, maybe we'll just walk through town a bit more.