Today's adventures consisted of traveling over to Lantau Island to see the Big Buddha.  It was a very giant Buddha.  We also took a cable car over the beautiful part of the island to get there.  It was a gorgeous day.  This evening we met up with a few people a friend of Nick's knows and ended up having drinks over at a yacht club, which was very colonial and very British.  Got some great night pictures.

Some general observations about Hong Kong so far: On the street level you can never escape this soft beeping and then trilling that are the crosswalk alerts.  They are constant.  Also, subways are awesome.  I really wish America used them more.  And finally, the irritation we Americans have with cars going slow in the fast lane still applies here, just with people instead of cars.

As promised, first pictures of Fooooood!

Breakfast!

Afternoon tea break

Oregon is only a potato chip bag away...

Dim sum!!!!

Sooooo good

Chocolate Sticks and Strawberry Creamcheese Cake

Ngong Ping 360 Cable Car (kind of pricey)

Going to Lantau Island

People burning incense near the Big Buddha

Ready to climb to the Big Buddha

At the bottom of the Big Buddha

Hi!

The view from the Big Buddha

Lin Po Monastery

Circle of flags

Kowloon Peninsula at night

(From the Yacht Club)