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Back From Hong Kong

Early on Sunday morning, Aika and I set off from Shanghai's 红桥(HongQiao) airport for 深圳 (ShenZhen). ShenZhen is the closest mainland Chinese city to 香港 (Hong Kong). By flying to ShenZhen instead of directly to Hong Kong we saved quite a bit on our airfare.

The occasion we were celebrating was the founding of the People's Republic of China. Everyone in mainland China gets a week's holiday (well technically we get less than that, since we have to work on weekends to make up for the holidays we get) so we were off to Hong Kong.

We had a great time, and got back last night.

I carried a little notebook around with me; I like to write things down that I need to remember. Usually I scrawl things on my phone, but since I wasn't carrying a phone around with me, I used the low-tech option of a paper notebook.

The notebook turned out to be a kind of a diary. Whenever we took a break from wandering around Hong Kong, I took a moment to write down something funny that happened, or where we had been. I'll fill you in on what I wrote in a later post.

So this is just a short post to let everyone know that I'm still here. Or, more precisely, that I wasn't here but am now.