Saying goodbye to our family was surely a tough thing but if we would have only known what kind of a crazy adventure would be awaiting us, we probably would have stuffed our pockets full of American treats. We first flew from Salt lake to San francisco, had a 3 hour lay over then we great excitement we boarded the plane for another welcoming 12 hours. What a joke! Right as we got on the plane it was1:00 in the morning, we all took sleeping pills and felt confident that we would be asleep the full 12 hours. As Natty and Brittany awoke to go to the restroom we were confident that we had maybe an hour left. As Brittany asked the flight attendant how much longer we had? She smiled back and said " oh we have only been flying for 4 hours." I think we were in shock for another 2 hours so techinally we only had 6 hours left. The Chinese flight attendant then came around and leaned down and asked brittany if she would like some "noodles" ha Brittany then looked to Natty and said" what are noodos?" with a frantic look on her face. Yes the lady was speaking English, thats when we knew this was going to be a hysterical trip. They then served us squid and some kind of weird vegetable that we were not sure what it was. Lexxy said it best when she said, " ladies i dont think we are not in Utah anymore." We then flew from Tapei, Taiwan to Hong Kong. Right off the plane we were welcomed into Hong Kong by a typhoon. We were told it was the biggest typhoon they had had in 5 years with winds as strong as 160 mph. The first day we were there we were not allowed to go outside due to the typhoon and most places were closed anyways, this did not dampen our spirits even though it was raining really hard the typhoon was not suppose to hit for hours so we went out exploring. We were happy to find there was a mcdonalds and starbucks which we love and a lot of american places and english everywhere, we definitely took advantage of that. We then spent the next 2 days in Hong Kong. There was a couple of interesting things that we noticed right off the bat.. a LOT of people smoke in China, the Humidity was very strong you always felt wet, A good share of people spoke a little bit of English, How much we really did love american food, and how the Chinese love to stare at americans. While we were there we got to see a lot of cool things.. such as jewlry factory, stanely market, jackie Chans house but we found that our favorite was the Hong Kong temple. It was so cool to see that the church is all over the world and that no matter where you go.. the spirit was so strong. We were able to meet the temple President, and one of his counselors. They were so excited that we were there to baptisms for the dead, there also was some natives there that helped with the confirmations.. what a powerful experience it was to be serving the people of Hong Kong, this was our first experience of really falling in love with the Chinese people. While Nat and Brit were doin there thing Lexxy went exploring the streets all by her lonesome, Just standing in the middle of the side walk there were chinese people hitting her from every angle of her body cause it was so crowded, she stood there just soaking it in. While she was sloshing away in her boots a man (not sure if chinese or japanese or what) asked her for a picture, yes he was about 3 feet shorter but thats neither here nor there. she found the ladies market and couldnt wait to show Brittany and Natty! After running home to find them changing, we practically ran to this market or (ahem) womans treasures :) From Juicy purses to beckham pants for less then 20 bucks!! Glasses and Jewels, Dresses and shoes! Funny thing though we didnt buy any of it except Natty who bought an Ed hardy hat. We were starving after so we walked to harbour bay city about 2 to 3 miles away to eat some Hard Rock Cafe baby! Delicious! We then walked home and crashed. The things we have seen and already have experienced is incredible. And thats not even on Mainland China.
