June 13, 2011 - Leaving with Rita & Derek for Hong Kong to pick up John from Mission

Here Rita and I sitting in the airport waiting for Derek
to park his car in the parking lot, we are excited for our
be adventure.



Me with my sweater on, it gets cold on the plane,
we got through the electronic search, didn't get patted
down.  A big group of missionaries were there going
to the Philippine's. 

 

Here Derek and Rita sit waiting to get on the Delta
Airline flight.  We were to board the plane about
one p.m  we didn't load until about 1:50.  the plane
didn't get far and they announced that a light come on
so we had to go back to the area of the gas pumps to
have it checked out, so that took an hour.  Rita had
her Ipad and played games on it.  Derek was nice and
let me sit by her.   We were in the first class section.
We finally got off around 3:30. 

 

Here Rita and sit, in the nice comfortable seats.

 

The first coarse of our meal, we were very hungry
but by the time we got to the dessert we were rather
full, they serve way to much food in first class.

 

We landed at 5: 50 p.m in the afternoon Japan time,
back in Orem it is it is 2:45 a.m.  We landed in a little
town called Narita, we could see a sculpture letter of
 the name in plants..  We talked to the girl who served us
breakfast, her name was Rika.  She had a friend named Rita.

 

This is the plane we got on in Japan, it is a 
first class plane too.  Never seen a plane with
seats like this, each has a cubicle, Derek is in
the seat on the next row.  Rita and I had fun
taking pictures of each other.   It was about
7 p.m here in Japan before we took off for
 Hong Kong.  They served us dinner, I wasn't
hungry, because they feed us breakfast on
the plane just before we landed.  The flight
was smooth and we slept a little.   

 

Rita completely relaxed and enjoying her meal



Here we are in Hong Kong, save and sound.
We had to go through Emigration, get our Passport
and Visa stamped.   The air port was about 25
 milesfrom down Town Hong Kong.  We were going
 to take the rail way express, but Derek thought it
would be easier for us all to just take a taxi,
after all we had been traveling for 24 hours.

 

Here is Derek and Rita looking pretty
chipper.  Not to tired from the trip.

 

That airport was a large place, we had alot luggage.

 

Here Derek is registering at the Marriott Hotel
there in Hong Kong.  It was along shore drive.

 

This is the view from our hotel window, what
you see below is a convention center, beyond
is Kowloon.  We are on the Island of Hong Kong.

 

We see the Victoria Harbour out our hotel 
this is the next morning.  It doesn't look like
it did, when Loren & I were here in 1990, so
many high rise buildings have been built.

 

This is looking the west side of Hong Kong,
the tall building you see is the Carlton Ritz,
a 100 stories, well tell you more about it, when
we went to the top and looked around.