From Haiti to L.A. to H.K. to Macau

It has been about 10 days since we left Haiti.  My dad reminded me that I haven’t blogged in a little while (I have created a monster) so here is a catch-up entry to keep everyone in the loop.

The last day in Haiti (9/21) we did a quick drop-by at CAFT for one last interview.  Then it was off to the airport where we checked in for our flight.

This whole time we had been traveling on non-revenue passes either through my father or Ruhi’s uncle, but fortunately the listings were for business class.  Of course, if there were no seats available in Business class we could easily get bumped down to economy, or even not get on the plane at all.  A few of the flights were close, but we managed to not only get on all the flights between Haiti and Hong Kong, but got to fly Business Class the whole way too.  I can’t tell you how awesome it is to fly business class across the Pacific.

From Haiti we flew to JFK in New York for a small layover.  Then another leg from JFK to LAX where we were going to stay with Trina, Ruhi’s sister.  Originally it was going to be for just a day, but due to the nature of Ruhi’s film project she needed more time to spend with her editor.  We rescheduled our departing flight for Saturday the 26th.

This meant that I had a couple more days to take care of some things.  I ran a bunch of errands to Ross and other stores for supplies, and even got to meet up with Tam and Faye, who were both still in L.A., but will be moving to Beijing in December.  Here is a picture of me trying on a jacket at Ross.

Our flight out was great, of course.  (Business Class, remember?)  We hung out at Narita for a few hours while waiting for our Hong Kong flight and when we arrived in HKG we were greeted by Jack and Joanne.  We’d be staying in Jack’s spare room out in Tin Shui Wai for the next day or so.

Due to the October holiday a train ticket was close to impossible to secure, so we decided to spend a few more days in Macau with Gordon and Maureen.  A week, to be precise.  After a day of packing up my 5 huge suitcases into some post office boxes for shipping to Xi’an, we headed to Wan Chai to get some supplies (I got a lens cleaning cloth for my camera), watched “Surrogates” at Pacific Place, and then caught a ferry from Shun Tak to Taipa.

While in Macau Ruhi will be working with Gordon on their film project.  This is a different project than the one she is doing for the Mona Foundation, in case you weren’t clear on that.  Our plan is to stay here until around the 7th or 8th and then head to Hong Kong.  Spend one night there and arrange shipment of our boxes and then go to Shenzhen to catch the train to Shandong where we will attend the All China Games in BinZhou.  A lot of our plans depend on what day we can get a ticket, of course, so we’re playing it a bit by ear.

After Shandong we’ll head to Beijing for a day or so to meet with clients and project-related peoples.  Then it is off to Xi’an around the 19th, just in time for Ruhi’s birthday on the 20th of October.

I can’t wait to finally settle down for a while.  I need to rest after this year of constant traveling!

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