My sweet hubby is in CHINA this week. China! I can hardly believe it. To prepare for his trip, we watched Mulan on Sunday. Aren’t we the multi-cultural family? Of course, whenever he’s out of town, I tend to worry. Especially when he’s gone so far away. Yesterday while the kids and I were at Classic Skating, he tried to call me. When I checked my phone it said I had three missed calls! Oh No! And no messages. When I tried to call back, it wouldn’t allow me to. I figured it had been him, calling from some far away land. When I got home, there was a message on the machine. It was Ryan, and he was calling from Korea. Thank goodness, I could relax a little bit. He did arrive safely in Hong Kong last night, and called me quickly to say he was fine. It took 24 hours of traveling to get there. This morning I had a couple of emails from him telling me about the trip.

We did pick the *perfect* time to fly into Hong Kong… There’s a ‘class
8’ typhoon over Hong Kong today (Tropical Storm Kammurri). We were still
able to land, although it was a somewhat bumpy landing.

Unfortunately, ferries are not running, and it would be a 4-5 hour bus
ride to go to where we’re going in China, so we’re staying tonight in Hong
Kong, and going early tomorrow morning to the factory in China.

There are a couple of airlines (Cathay Pacific and someone else I can’t
remember) are going to stop flying into the airport for the next few
hours. When we got to the airport, about an hour after we landed, it was
pouring rain, but it’s let up a bit now.

The typhoon is heading towards where we’re going tomorrow, but it should
be cleared up by tomorrow morning, so we should be able to get the ferry.

It’s 3:30PM here. We’ve checked into the hotel, the Gateway Hong Kong
(Marco Polo Hotels) and had some dinner at a local restaurant with Alan,
who is our contact from the contract manufacturer Control4 uses to build
many of it’s products. He met us at the airport, and took us on the train
to Kowloon (Hong Kong), and checked us into the hotel and took us out for
‘lunch’.

We also walked around the mall here that’s attached to the hotel, other
than the large # of chinese people and the chinese writing, it looks just
like a high-end mall in the States.

For some reason, some young chinese girls faces remind me of Natalie. I
think it’s because her face is rounder than Megan and Jenna’s.

Now isn’t that sweet? He also said this:

Alan (our ‘guide’) also told us that 8 is a lucky number, and the olympics
are starting on 08/08/08 at 8pm.

The number 8 is pronounced the same as a word that means you’ll be rich or
well-to-do.

Interesting tidbit.

And then he sent me this link.

So, thanks, Ryan, for the interesting blog fact. And take care of yourself!