Hong Kong Disney report

June 3rd - still our anniversary!

It rains continually here in Hong Kong - with just a few minutes of dry weather - and you hope that there is a breeze to dry your clothes off. It is only 68 degrees - but there is 100% humidity. My skin feels wonderful, but I look like the pits! We had our business visit with Disney today - and it was wonderful. It is a very small Disney - that is why it is cheap. Not many people there and when it rains - and, their rain is a down pour - the rides continue. Everyone is soaked there. I did find out that we need to buy all the kids one of those neck straps that companies put their name badges on (landlears?) - and buy them some disney pins and have them pin them on the neck strap. Because it is Disney policy that all of their employees wear them and when they are in the park - guests in the park can go up to them and ask them to trade their pins away. The guest gets to pick which pin they want from the employee - and then the guest gives them one of the pins on their necklace. The employees are required to do at least 2 trades a day. I was hoping that we would go by a store in disney and I was going to buy 7 and 14 pins - but we didn't have time. That business visit was the best and we could have stayed all day - it was so interesting. Noble Cocker is the one that did the tour and he is the 3rd man down at Hong Kong Disney. He is a BYU undergrad graduate and has been with Disney for 7 years and loves it! He reminded me a lot of Andy - the way that he talked and told stories - with enthusiasm. We are packing tonight for Bangkok. If you are ever in Hong Kong - you have to stay at the Renaissance in Kowloon Peninsula. It is wonderful! The breaksfasts at all of the hotels so far have been terrific. We won't have time for the breakfast buffet tomorrow morning - so they will box up breakfast for us. The last time we had that in Japan - it was really a lunch - because they eat lunch stuff for breakfast. Dad ate mine and his!

We took the subway to the Lady's market tonight. We are becoming really good at the subway. The subways here are beautiful! Nothing like DC or New York. All the way to the subway - they have shops. 7-11 stores, Starbucks and lots of clothing stores. You would never guess you are underground. Someone said that you can just go underground - and never surface until you go back to your apartment at night. And it is cool and dry underground! Hong Kong seems like a really nice place to live - if you can survive without a car - and with all of the people. Beautiful flowers and trees!