Hong Kong day 2

Yesterday, Day 2, was the day we set out to take care of our visa requirements to be able to reenter and live in China for the last few weeks. We woke up early around 5:30 am and set out for Hong Kong Island from the express train that runs near our hotel near the airport. We got into town in the right neighborhood and found the building and eventually the office, but it was closed. We were kind of worried so we went up to this other immigration office with a huge line but I asked and it turned out to be just for Hong Kong, and they told us to go back to the Chinese one. We walked back thinking we had just got there too early and to our luck we got back and were about 3rd in line. After running through hoops and waiting around an hour, filling out some paperwork, ect, we found out that we did not need to renew our visas after all, since they are multiple entry visas to begin with. Ah well, at least we didn't waste our whole day doing this, and it's good to know or else we'd have to have waited until Monday to pick up our new visas, when we're supposed to be back Sunday to the school. But all is well and we are good to go. The trip to Hong Kong was still necessary because we have to exit and reenter China to reset our visa's 90-day-stay limit.

We ended up walking and taking the train around the city for the whole day, first going through another street market area that wasn't as good as the one yesterday. We just started walking and then found one of the cool parks in the city that contained a free plant conservatory and a free birdhouse to walk through, and a Greek style Olympic theatre/arena where people were taking some wedding photos. We found a Subway so I ordered a meatball sub and ate at a small park across the street.

EDIT:
I can't believe I forgot to mention this when I typed this post earlier today, but the coolest part of yesterday was probably when we both went to a beach and swam in the ocean - well, actually the South China Sea, but it still counts. It was really awesome and the scenery was great, and the water was obviously very salty.



Later on we went to the Walled City Park, which is a Walled-City Park, not just a Walled City-Park - sort of an historic park about an old part of the area that was a walled city.

For dinner we wanted to try some Japanese food so we went downtown and found a decent Sushi place. I only had sushi one time before so I didn't know what to get and nothing seemed too appetizing, but I got a couple of things and it was actually pretty good, and much cheaper than an equivalent sushi place in the US. Afterwards we decided to go see a movie at this huge shopping center place. We saw the new X-Men Origins Wolverine movie, and it was pretty good for a pulp action film. Afterwards walking back we found a street DVD dealer selling movies outside of the subway entrance, so I bought 3 movies for 50 HK Dollars - the X-Men movie I just watched, W. , and Slumdog Millionaire. I haven't seen Slumdog yet but I've heard it's pretty good, so I picked it up.

Today we are going to Macau and getting there from a ferry in the city.