We’re Off To Hong Kong!

It’s been barely a week that we’ve been back from Bangkok, and already we’re off again for a couple of days for our first trip as a barkada outside of the country.  This time, we’re going to Hong Kong!  We’re all so stoked because we’ve been to Bohol as a barkada, but we’ve never been outside of the Philippines.  We’ve planned this since November, even way before we found out that we were going to Bangkok.  Thank goodness everything fit in the schedule.  We’re even traveling with a kid and a baby.

This is the first time I’m going back to Hong Kong since RX brought us there early 2008.  That’s where I bought my first DSLR, my sentimental favorite, my beloved Nikon D40x.  The picture above was still taken by my then PNS cam of choice, my Olympus C5060.  So I’d like to see Hong Kong through my new lenses, although I don’t really expect this to be too much of a photo trip, buecause we plan to be full-blown tourists this time around.  Believe it or not, we also don’t expect to do much shopping, although I don’t know how long I can resist, once we get to Mongkok and their streets lined with camera shops.  I have my eye on a couple of lenses, but we’ll see…

I haven’t been this excited about a trip in a long time.  I expect we’ll act like kids, out on the town for the first time.  And the food! I expect to binge on Chinese food, diets be damned!  It was a long nightmarish path to get to the trip, with many obstacles and roadblocks along the way, but we made it.  Hopefully the returns are good and many.  So we’ll have to be on leave from Wednesday to Friday (since we don’t have work this weekend), and you’ll hear from us again on Monday!  If internet isn’t so expensive (like in Bangkok), hopefully I’ll get to post some blog entries while we’re there.  See you guys!