Noodles on noodles on noodles

Today has been quite an eventful day! After waking up (for good) around 5am, we went out for a traditional hong kong breakfast with the rest of the "hostel group". We are staying with 5 guys: Brad is from the US but living in Nanjing (he originally came with the same program as us over two years ago and never left!), Tony (a former student of Brad) and then Ben and Jack (father and son, Jack is a student of brad), and finally Jack. Yes two jacks. One plays soccer and is obsessed with his hair. I call him "good" jack. The other plays video games constantly, has the most contagious laugh, and got kicked out of brads class for saying a bad word. I call him "bad" Jack. They are all from Nanjing.

Anyway, breakfast. I wasn't really sure what to order so when I was asked "a or b" I said a. I'm lucky because the food was actually pretty good (a bowl of macaroni noodles, ham, abalone soup) and a plate of fried eggs and bread. We also had this really delicious toast with butter and sweetened condensed milk.

Next we went to the beach!! (yay!) it was called "deep sea bay beach" and it was really pretty and the sand was so soft (and rocky...weird). I found a shell with a hole so I put it on my necklace...free souvenir!

We then walked up a huge hill to take the scenic route bus ride back to the city centre for lunch (more noodle soup) and then to meet up with the whole group (most of the day we spent with the Brad and Tony).

Then...VICTORIA PEAK! It was incredible. We were up so high I felt like I could see everything. This area has some of the most expensive real estate in the world ($9000 per sq ft!). It was nice to finally be introduced to the rest of the group too, even though we really didn't meet many people. Amber was able to take better pictures then me because dumb typical Ashley didn't charge her camera battery.
Also Victoria peak had a bubba gump shrimp co! And then I couldn't stop quoting the movie (also typical Ashley).
In other movie news, we saw the building that batman jumps off of in the dark knight! (picture below)

In trying to keep this long blog short (Amber says I ramble too much, but in my first post I had a disclaimer!) I'll end with saying dinner was also great (more noodles!) but I made the mistake of adding some sauce to my food before knowing what it was. It smelled sweet...but tasted SPICY! Wowza. Amber and I eventually peeled off from the group and did some more exploring on our own. Thats when we found Chinese dragon dances for celebrating the new year. It was pretty cool.

Ok. I need to stop now. Too much info. But then again, I've been living in sensory overload now for two days. And I love every bit.