I woke up after a good night's sleep and felt refreshed and got to breakfast even before Don did which is a first. We got to the class with nothing different to report for breakfast or transit to the class. The morning lecture went by and Victor the manager of our Asia operations took the class out to lunch to the same restaurant we took the class out to last week in the area. It was basically very similar in that they ordered a lot of stuff and it was served family style. I managed not to drop or spray anything on myself this lunch. I did try two new things in this mean which were century eggs which are fermented duck eggs and I had chicken feet this time. The one I tried was prepared with a black bean sauce and was actually very tasty. It was not the sickly looking yellow of the ones from the week before. Otherwise all the rest of the meal was basically things we saw in the week previous.
After lunch we got back to lecture and then lab time and worked until about 5 to 5:15 or so before leaving. Billy and Han had to got to a meeting at 5 so we figured it best to stop there. Don forgot his phone in the office and realized it at the bus stop so went back to get it so I traveled back to the hotel solo and met Daniela who was just getting ready for the evening. During the day Jack had connected with me and said he could probably not get together with us except that evening after we went to dinner. He had to finish work late then get to the house and put his children to bed then he could come out. So we decided to stay close to the hotel for dinner and ate at a cafe in the mall that served some Italian and western style stuff. Daniela had a pasta with avocado and mushrooms where she picked out the mushrooms and I had fish and chips. The food was actually pretty good from my perspective but Daniela thought her dish was a little odd though she ate it and eventually said she liked it. We then bought an ice cream from McDonalds so she could get another Hello Kitty World Cup doll.
After that we went up to the lounge and met Don there. Don was talking with some new friends he had made, a Taiwanese couple who live in California named Larry and Ester. They were in their 60s and were very nice and Larry was very funny. So we hung out for the time waiting for Jack to arrive and eventually he came upstairs and joined us too. We had a few glasses of wine each through the evening and then had one more drink with Jack down in the Lion Rock bar before he left for the night. That was just a beer each. Daniela and I had Sapporo and Jack had a San Miguel. We talked about a lot of different subjects along the way. It was a very enjoyable night. We went to bed after 2am though...
The pictures from Hong Kong day 7 are here. Unfortunately, I didn't bring my camera later in the evening.
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