Amber's Journal: Day 10

Our theme of the day: Museums and Maglevs!  This morning we visited the Shangahi museum and I think I could spend a week there happily.  It's full of delicate carvings, amazing regional costumes, beautiful furniture, and a lot of other stuff that I could spend just days studying.  Some of the jade carvings are so tiny--barely the size of a pack of cards but are complete miniature landscapes, gardens, fruits, and tiny goddesses.  I think I could have spent a day alone just admiring the regional costumes--some of them were just amazing to look at!

Maglev trains are cool.  They go wicked wicked fast and are again, totally Blade Runner!  We took a maglev train to get to the airport for our hop to Hong Kong--I totally approve as it took us right into the airport in happy comfort and a sedate 187 miles per hour!  Man, what's not to love?

Our arrival in the Shangri-La Kowloon Hong Kong hotel had one of the classiest touches ever--we were greeted with special Disney-decorated cookies and HOT tea! Piping hot tea!  That's some orchestration to manage a good thirty or so pots of tea for our whole tour!  This is one touch I wish we could be greeted with upon all of our arrivals.