Hoots Mon Blog – Sino-euro style

Day the first

So here we go again – there’s something about the bit before you leave that is probably the worst part of the trip. All that packing and planning and faffing – it feels never ending, especially at 11pm when stuff’s not done and the alarm is set for 4.45am to get that early flight.

Anyhoo, we managed – even the last minute misplacing of a camera didn’t trip us up. To Canberra airport, to Sydney airport – then onto the plane.

Consensus seems to be that Cathay Pacific did a pretty fine job of moving our carcasses between SYD and HKG. We were in two pairs of seats, on in front of the other, so both the kids had windows – not that there was a whole lot of looking going on – Sasha for one would happily circle the globe with the entertainments on offer in the seat-back interactive video on demand game tv thingy.

I usually struggle a bit in cattle class, being on the unshort side, but CP’s seats do this funky non-reclining thing so you don’t get someone else’s head in your lap at 30,000 feet. The seat does kinda recline, but it’s more of the base under you bum sliding forward. While it wasn’t any more comfortable, the bonus of the seat back in front remaining upright more than outweighs it.

Anyway, on the ground in HK, bags ahoy, money changed and in a taxi to Disneyland’s Hollywood Hotel in the Hong Kong Disney resort. Works well, it’s near the airport and part of the HK stopover was doing Disney for Sasha. Mik reckons Hong Kong does America than the Americans! It’s a bit cheese, but the kids love it, the staff are totally friendly and so far all easy. The room’s a bit small for the four of us – but we weren’t going to drop coin on two rooms. The girls in the same bed will be character-building!! AS far as foreign culture goes, we’ve yet to venture beyond the piano-shaped pool or the replica Hollywood sign in the Disney garden though.

Oh, one bummer. It was raining cats and doggies when we left Canberra – and in Sydney. At some point our bags spent a bit of quality time on a trolly in the elements, so got very wet outside - and inside in Indi and my cases. Most of our clothes are strewn around the room trying to dry.