Another Visitor

Last night, I met up with another visitor. This visitor was Michele Dietz, who is a Park Ridge native and fellow '07 Ignatius graduate. She was studying abroad in Thailand for the past five months, and her group came to Hong Kong before leaving. So I was able to meet up with her. We first met at the Mong Kok MTR station, then I showed her the ladies market, the enormous open-air market for everything. She said she definitely wants to go back before she leaves on Tuesday.

After that, we took the MTR over to TST and walked around there a bit. We also got some delicious meat-sticks and Mango Sago, both of which were great. Then we walked through the huge mall there, and she almost had a heart-attack when she saw that the mall had both Jimmy Choo and Manolo Blahnicks (sp?) shoe stores there (Ellen Jones did the same). Then we went and took the Star Ferry across to Central. As luck would have it, we got on the ferry at exactly 8 o'clock, which is when the light show begins. So we had a great view for that.

We went to Good Luck Thai in Lan Kwai Fung for dinner, one of my favorite spots to eat in Hong Kong. We had chicken and beef satay (more meat on sticks) for an appetizer. We also had some garlic naan (Indian flat bread), chicken curry, some Thai rice, and a couple Tsing Tao's to wash it all down. Everything was great.

After dinner, we walked around LKF, as "Carnival" was going on at the time. We purchased a couple of beer things which hung around your neck, which were cool. We had Erdinger, as I mentioned at dinner how good it was. We saw the sites, finished our beers, and headed back. On the way, this guy on the MTR struck up a conversation with us. He was an American, that was obvious from the accent. Then I asked where he was from, and he was from Boston. To continue on the night's theme of a small world, I told him that I go to BC but was studying at HKUST for the semester. His daughter goes to Ohio St. and is also studying at HKUST for the semester. Very funny.

Michele and I said our goodbyes at Yau Ma Tei, and I was home by midnight. It was a lovely night.

Today, there's gonna be some homework finished and such. I also will get to start my new book (Blink by Malcolm Gladwell), as I finished 1776 on Friday night. It was excellent, and anyone remotely interested in American history would really enjoy it.

Go Bears.