This marked a lot of firsts for the kids, an experience that they will carry on for life.
Our flight was early Monday morning on the last week of Feb. We woke the kids up at 3am to get ready. Cab is already waiting, we're all packed!
An hour and a half later, we found ourselves in a long line of passengers checking in for Flight 101. Too bad, it seems like we're not going to get seats close to each other. We had to plan a seating arrangement, separate the rascals apart and have a parent with each. We ended up with Team A ( Grandma, Daddy & J ) and Team B ( Grandpa, Mommy & E ). Well enough, I'm grateful my Team got the most number of zzzzz's and Mommy was able to watch a handful of short videos from the personal monitors in the plane. I had an overdose of 'Just for Laughs' the whole flight.
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Little E sharing the plane ride with Big E
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The baggage-cart-Rascals!
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The long line of people checking in for our flight. Goodbye available seats!
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| Waiting for the pack to board. |
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| The leader (and manager!) of the pack. |
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| Baby J, sorting the headphones he'll use to play games on-board. |
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| Baby J, pretending to be asleep just because he don't want his picture taken! |
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| The congested plane bound to HK. |
After nearly 2 hrs (because of the delay caused by Filipinos held by the immigration), we finally arrived to our destination...Hello Hongkong!!!
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| We finally landed... |
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| Hello shopping! |
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| Me and my Superhero! |
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| Waiting for the 'always' late tour guide. |
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| My Knight with the guards! ( After this pic was taken, the HK Immigration officers just pointed out to a sign just infront of us: NO PICTURE TAKING IN THE AIRPORT). Sorry, damage has been done! haha |
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We got a bit frustrated about the tour guide because we waited 45 freaking minutes before he finally asked everyone to get in the shuttle. After being excited all along, now the kiddos are dead hungry! The ride was for about 45 minutes from the HK Airport to the Disney Hollywood Hotel. FYI: This is a pure Disney adventure which means we will be staying within the Disneyland grounds for 3 days. Bliss for the kids! Unfortunately, we'll have to save all our shopping energy up till the next HK trip. Tsk.
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| Still finding a way to hide from the camera. |
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| HK freeway to Disneyland. |
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| Our busmates enjoying the scenery consisting of roads, a few cars and a lot of hills. |
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| This is just the start of a long 3-day hyperactivity! |
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| The most excited member of the pack is so glad to be here! |
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| A glimpse of heaven for the kiddos! |
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It was tiring but the actual travel time is only for a grand total of 8 hours including the wait time. That's 4.5 hours from our home to the airport plus checking in, bag inspections, paying airport fees, and quick breakfast. Then 1.something-hours plane ride including the delay. Then about 2 hours from the plane, wait time for the freaking late tour guide and shuttle travel.
This will be a start of a 3-day adventure and I will share them by bits and pieces because telling the entire story might require me to look for a publisher.
More pictures and lots of stories to come. Remember: WE JUST ARRIVED. So expect more stories on the next Parts of this trip.
Ciao,
Joyce
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