Kristine Le Voyageur: Hong Kong 2015: Day 1

It's 5:37 am and I am typing this post on my iphone so please bear with my typos if there would be any. 

Technically, our first day in Hong Kong was spent in the airport. Our flight was at 6:20pm but we were at the airport early because we didn't want to be stuck in traffic or face any other possible delay and be late for our check in time. We were there for about 5 hours! 

    At Ninoy Aquino International Airport 

            While waiting for boarding! 

We got on the plane at around 5:50pm. We were both terrified at first but as the airplane took flight at around 7:00pm, we were able to relax and take some selfies. 

Here's an important question: Why are plane food so expensive? 😛

Before our descend, we had the most painful earache (whatchamacallit)! So that's what everyone was talking about! Nevertheless, we arrived in Hong Kong unscathed! 😛

              Touchdown Hong Kong!! 

We were met by one of the guys from Ann Travels and were escorted to the bus waiting to transfer us to our hotel in Kowloon. My sister and I were the only ones on the bus on a cold night and the driver was listening to a local radio station and we were strangers on a beautiful city who cannot speak the language and it was a bit scary! Haha 😂 But hey, the beautiful architecture around was good enough to take our minds off of it. We arrived safely at Casa Hotel at around 9:30pm. 

Our hotel is surrounded by so many shops and it is near the subway! 

          The view from our hotel room

                        But first...😋

After we were settled nicely in our room, we contacted one of our uncles who is a Hong Kong local and we met him and his family for dinner! It was 11:30pm and most of the shops were closed already. We settled for a noodle house in front of our hotel. 

Our Uncle Manuel (our dad's brother) and his family! 

In front of the subway station! 🚆

(Note: I will update these photos once we got home and transfered the photos to our laptops) 

Of eating authentic Chinese noodles and meeting relatives for the first time 

It was a first time for me to meet relatives from my father's side of the family tree. Meeting our Uncle was both surreal and comforting in some ways. Here's to hoping we could meet more from papa's family in the future! 🍻

In the meantime, my sister and I have to prepare for a big day ahead! We are going on a tour of the city and then to Disneyland (yayyyy!!!) in the afternoon! Can't wait to meet Mickey and Minie and the rest of the gang! ✌🏻️

Hope you're having a nice day wherever you are in the world! 😁 xo