Hello all- I'm writing again, instead of Melissa (which is very stange, as most of you know how Melissa is usually the much more avid blogger), but she is very busy because we are leaving for Bangkok tonight at 10pm and there is so much to do! This morning, we got up very early, finished packing up her entire room, took a huge box to the post office, tried to find the Cambodian embassy to get travel visas (failed miserably, as it took us 45 minutes to get to the building we thought it was in, only to be told the embassy had moved over 10 years ago. Thanks for nothing, official/government Cambodian website), took visa pictures, went to her campus to print out travel documents, returned library books, got Melissa's caution deposit back...the list goes on... There's so much to do when you have to tie up the loose ends of a 6 month life somewhere! Anyway, yesterday, we went to dim sum in the morning with some of Melissa's lovely friends. Despite luke-warm regard for Chinese food (or the American version, aka Panda Express) I loved a lot of the dishes- especially the shrimp dumplings, egg custard, fried eggpland, and BBQ pork buns. I even tried fried chicken feet! Not my favorite, but still interesting. We walked around Hong Kong a bit, and I got to appreciate the incredible contrast of the ultra modern buildings surrounded with quaint street food stands and massive dried food store fronts (every part of every animal, along with a billion spices, are in baskets on the curbside, their odors wafting towards pedestrians). We had delicious vegetarian Indian food that night, and took the Star ferry across the water, enjoying the beautiful light show (without the corny music) of the Hong Kong skyline- it was really stunning in a very modern, urban way. In a few hours, we will have our last meal in Hong Kong with Erin and then head out for the airport around 7 to catch our flight to the next big adventure- Thailand!
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