The Yans': We arrived in Hong Kong!!!

We left Salt Lake City at 3:30 a.m. on 10/3/16 to catch the 6 o'clock flight to Dallas Fort Worth, Had a 3 hours layover to catch our flight to Hong Kong, My daughter-in-law, Jessica's parents were able to meet us at the Dallas airport and took us from domestic gates to the International gates (from A concourses to D concourses), We were able to spent a hour visiting, Jeannie and Wei were so nice, they brought us a sack lunch that last till the next day, airline meals were fine but the lunches they packed for us were much better!

We were glad we upgraded our seats, even though we paid a little more money, our seats were wider and we were able to recline a little more so we could rest. Ted took a couple nap during our 16 hours flight to Hong Kong, I did not feel tired but was able to sleep, may be 2 hours. We arrived Hong Kong at 5:15 local time on Tuesday, 10/4/16.

We were blessed during our trip:
1. We checked in our luggage which contained of four large bags, each weighing 49 plus lbs, then we had our two carry on and personal items, I was concerned that we would have a hard time rolling those luggage and the heavy back pack Ted is carrying and my computer and Ted's CPAP machines, we would be in trouble if the route to exit to meed Jessica's parents were long ... but when we got to the gate in SLC, the attendance come on and said that because it is a full flight and there are limited overhead compartment spaces, they are asking for volunteers to check in their carry on bags and they would be checked in to the final destination, we took advantage of that and did not have to take our bags with us while we were in Dallas ... a tender mercy from the Lord indeed!

2. When we get to Hong Kong, Celi Miller's brother, Brat Chick, was waiting for us at the gate to walk us out, he works at the immigration office in Hong Kong, it was so nice to be escorted! He even took a picture of our flight coming in (see below), We did not have to stand in line to go thru custom, At one point, when Brat took our passports, we were standing there waiting for him, I jokingly said to Ted "we would be in trouble if someone come up to us to ask for our ID as we have nothing to show them!" Ted said "we have our Washington license!" Brat came back with our passports all taking care off, we are allowed to stay until January, 2017. He then took us to pick up our luggage, all six pieces, there are no charge to get a cart to load our luggage, so we were able to get two carts, Brat walked us out and we were meet by Elder and Sister Norman. This was the easiest foreign travel I have ever done!! ... another tender mercy!!

So far we did not have any problem with jet lag, we got to our apartment around 8 p.m., we stayed up until about midnight local time to unpack, then was able to sleep for 6 hours, we were up again by 6:30 a on Wednesday, Sister Norman (Tussy) took us around places where we could shop for groceries and when we could walk to the subway in the morning, Then we were on our own the rest of the day, since I grew up on the Hong Kong island side, Ted and I took the MTR (Mass transit railway) over to the Central district, we recognized a few old buildings that still existed but there are so many new buildings, even the coast line was pushed out with reclaimed land and buildings put up
when it used to be waters. We walked about 23000 steps on our fitbit at the end of the day!!!

Elder and Sister Thong took us out to TST for dinner at the Harbour City mall. There are variety of food you could ordered, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Thai and deserts, you would order and then paid at the cashier, we were given a phone that would light up when our food is ready. It was so quick and easy. We finally got home around 9 p.m., Our feet were tired but we did not feel the effect of jet lag ... another tender mercy!!

We are excited for tomorrow when we could go into the office at the Church administrative building in Wan Chai over on the Hong Kong side.