The day has finally come for us to fly to Hong Kong again!! Dear & I had been to Beijing (via Hong Kong) 6 days ago, & on our 7th day morning, we were supposed to fly to Hong Kong.

Both Dear & I were kinda sleepy looking cos we had only slept for 2 - 3 hours the night before packing our luggages, watching TV & chit chatting about our Beijing trip till almost dawn!! And we had to rise & be ready for checkout at 4.30am haha!!

Dear wearing the Beijing Olympics Tiantan (Temple of Heaven) T-shirt bought at Wangfujing Shopping Street :

Me (wearing my new Black velvet with shinning beads shoes from my shopping last night!!) with our Beijing tour guide Wang Jing at the Changfeng Hotel lobby - Wang Jing kept commenting what a beautiful pretty dress I was wearing when she first saw me in the lobby, & she even immediately told our Chinese driver Sifu about it & told him to look at my dress!! Haha it was she was so cute!!

In fact, Wang Jing also ommented that I really have so many dresses, & that I really love wearing dresses - haha yea I really do love dresses & I love wearing them too!!

As for Wang Jing, she has never worn dresses before cos she felt that she was too fat & dresses wouldn’t be nice on her at all. Besides, her boyfriend often told her that she was fat & so she dared not wear dresses at all!

However that morning when she saw me in this Purple dress, she changed her mind & told me that from then onwards, she would try to wear dresses!! Heehee I was so happy to hear her say that!! Wang Jing said that cos of my previous encouragements to her (for telling her that she was not fat at all but a very sweet pretty girl & dresses would be nice on her too etc), she was beginning to feel that she wana try to wear dresses cos she also wana look as pretty as me!! I was really happy for her then & was glad that I was of some help to her in this area heehee!!

So I hope Wang Jing, if you happen to be reading this right now in Beijing - that you’re happily wearing as many dresses as possible as you like, & are enjoying life’s beauty now!!

Below photo shows Changfeng Hotel Restaurant where we were supposed to have our breakfast that morning. However, cos of our so early checkout, Wang Jing arranged for our Breakfast to be packed & taken away with us.

Fake grapes hanging from the ceiling inside the Hotel Cafe, which reminded me of the time I was walking (in Xinjiang) under long stretches of Grape Trellis where many beautiful huge real grapes hung from above!!

Dear at the Hotel main entrance ‘playing’ with the China Mobile battery charging machine - hoho Dear loves electronic stuffs!!

Dear standing outside Changfeng Hotel, behind Sifu’s van, before we left the Hotel for the Airport :

I’ve put all the other photos taken at the Hotel in the following Slideshow - Thank you Changfeng Hotel, for such a wonderful last night in Beijing, though we wished we had more nights’ stay with you!

Dear & I left Changfeng Hotel with Wang Jing at around 5.10am, in Sifu van, to travel to the Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3.

We arrived at the Beijing Capital International Airport Terminal 3, 2 hours before our 7.45am flight to Hong Kong. And Dear & I bidded farewell to Sifu & Wang Jing & thanked them for all the time spent with us in Beijing! 

And guess what, I’ve got stares from passers-by (mostly Chinese) at my dress to my shoes since I stepped into the Airport (in fact till later when I arrived in Hong Kong Airport too!), that I asked Dear if I’d worn my dress wrongly, or that I looked very ugly in my outfit?!! But based on their curious looks, we knew it was only cos they liked my Purple dress & Black shoes - haha so strange may be the Chinese ladies have never seen such a dress in Beijing?! I really wonder………

Anyway, after our luggages check-in, Dear & I went to the Airport’s Burger King to have our breakfast, the ones packed from Changfeng Hotel.

Beautiful views of the Airport from where we were seated above, inside Burger King. The Airport is really big, spacious & beautiful!! And it was really nice having our breakfast here & people watched the ongoing travellers down below! 

Our packed breakfast from Changfeng Hotel :

The Hotel staffs had forgotten that Wang Jing has told them the night before to prepare & pack our breakfast, so they rushed into packing them just before we were about to leave the Hotel.

Our Breakfast packs consisted of Fried Rice, Fried Noodles, & Tea Leaf Eggs (or “Cha Ye Dan” in Chinese), & some fresh Cherry Tomatoes - guess there were only these 4 items cos they were packed in a rush, & the Hotel kitchen chef must have not prepared & cooked all the other dishes yet!

However, these 4 items all tasted pretty good & we were happy enough :))

The Cherry Tomatoes :

Dear peeling the “Cha Ye Dan” as he was saying “Yucks so black so scary one the egg!!”". Haha Dear actually was kinda scared to eat Cha Ye Dan!! So funny!!

The peeled Cha Ye Dan :

Well, Dear took some bites of the Cha Ye Dan when I told him it was really nice & tasted just like normal hard-boiled eggs!! 

After breakfast, Dear & I walked to the Passenger Waiting Area to take the Airport Shuttle Train that would bring us to the Immigration Counters :

I like this below Beijing 2008 Olympics Fuwa Advertisment which we saw while walking towards the Shuttle Train Waiting area :

Waiting for the Shuttle Train now :

The below Slideshow contains photos taken of us leaving Changfeng Hotel in Sifu’s van to the Airport, to us having Breakfast at the Burger King, & of the views of the Airport from where we were seated while eating. It also contains the photos I took while Dear & I were walking & taking the Airport Shuttle Train to the Immigration :

Dear & I waited for the longest time at the Immigration Counters cos there were very very long queues!! Once we got off the Airport Shuttle Train, all the passengers rushed & fled to the Counter queues & there were simply too many of us!! Dear & I were just walking leisurely to the Counters not knowing to “run” like others at all, not to mention as fast as them!! Haha!! So we both ended up behind too long a queue!!

Passengers kept coming in from the Shuttle Train rides, yet there were only 2 or 3 Counters opened, making the queues much longer & our turn much later to be reached!! Dear & I both felt such was a silly design of the Airport, & unless they open up more or all the Counters come the Beijing Olympics period, we’re sure many would definitely complain!!

The following Slideshow contains photos taken at the Airport before we were about to board our flight to Hong Kong.

Onboard Cathy Pacific CX317 - Dear was so happy to be seeing Hong Kong very soon again!!

Smartie & Sparkie sitting on my lap :

Smartie’s carrying his harvest sack which Pa Pa & Ma Ma bought for him from Build-A-Bear Workshop at Vivo City, Singapore - isn’t he adorable?!!

Dear holding the Beijing 2008 Olympics Fuwa Yingying & Huanhuan Key Rings which our tour guide Wang Jing gave us earlier in the morning before we left Beijing - compliments from her China travel agency. Wang Jing chose Yingying & Huanhuan to give Dear & I cos she knew that my birth year is Metal & Dear’s is Wood, just like Yingying who represents Metal, & Huanhuan represents Wood. How sweet of her :))

Huanhuan & Yingying were equally happy to be flying to Hong Kong with us heehee!!

Fuwa Huanhuan & Yingying :

And of course our 2 Babies Smartie & Sparkie were very excited about flying again!! And they were both very happy to meet their 2 new Chinese friends!!

Soon, we were all in the air - Goodbye Beijing!! Thank you so much for such a great time, giving us so much joyous memories, & tones of lovely souvenirs!!

Shortly after take-off, Dear & I went straight into the in-flight entertainment Movies - Dear’s favourite pastime during flying!!

Soon afterwards it was time for our in-flight meals - my Chinese Dim Sum Set consisted of Chinese Noodles, Pork Bao, Ha Gau & Siew Mai, with fresh Fruits, Yogurt & Bun :

Dear’s was a Western Set with Sausage, Scrambled Eggs, Harsh Brown, Broccoli & Mushrooms, besides the Bun & Desserts : 

My Chinese Set wasn’t too good cos the Dim Sums were kinda hard, but Dear’s Western Set was pretty nice - I liked the Mushrooms!!

The Peach Yogurt :

Our in-flight estimated details of our arrival time in Hong Kong :

Hey hey we’re already flying on top of Hong Kong!! Yes Yes Dear & I were both so excited about arriving in Hong Kong!! We both just love Hong Kong so much, especially its food!! Yummies Yummies here we come!!

Now, we can see Hong Kong very well - it was so beautiful from up where I was seated by the Window seat!!

Cos there’re just far too many photos that I’ve taken during our flight from Beijing to Hong Kong, I’ve put all the photos (inclusive of the very sad Sichuan Earthquake newspaper reports which we were reading during our flight) in the following Slideshow :

Dear & I finally landed on Hong Kong International Airport after flying 3 hours from Beijing to Hong Kong - the time was 11.18 am, & the temperature at a warm 26 degrees celsius.

Map of Hong Kong :

Inside Hong Kong International Airport Terminal 1 now :

Dear & I were so happy & excited to be in Hong Kong again - it was our 3rd time visiting Hong Kong, or the 4th if considering our Hong Kong Transit on our way to Beijing a week ago!! Anyway, we just couldn’t wait to get out there to eat & shop & eat & shop!! Yippie Yippie!!!

After checking our of the Immigration Counters, Dear & I had to take the Airport Shuttle Train to our Luggage Belt :

And WOW WOW we were so surprised to see so many Indians among us in the Airport!! Even the whole train in which we were travelling was filled up with mostly the Indians - young & old - babies, grandma grandma, daughters, sons, students, teachers etc etc!!! I was telling Dear that we would definitely be expecting a whole Indian nation in the Hong Kong Disneyland the next day (Sunday) on which we would be visiting haha haha!!!

See the below huge Indian crowds who’d just alighted from the Shuttle train which we just rode in!! And there were more already gone up the escalator, & more still coming from behind!!

Dear waiting at Belt 11 for our Luggages :

Me standing with our luggages at the Airport Tourist Pick-up Area, waiting for our travel pickup agent to take us to our Hotel :

Dear & I soon met up with our Hong Kong Travel agent who confirmed our Hotel transfer pickup time & venue. And looking that we still had some time to spare before our departure to the Hotel, I went shopping of course, in the following Hong Kong DIsneyland Shop :

And I bought the following Disneyland Key Rings for Mom, Dear & myself - so happy so happy!!

Dear & I later walked to the Airport’s Sky Plaza where I window shopped a little more!

And hey!! There’re the Olympics Fuwa - heehee so glad to see them again cos I was beginning to miss them already upon leaving Beijing!!

But hey, we didn’t know that there’s the following Equestrain Fuwa in town!! Yes, Dear & I knew that the Olympics Equestrain events would be held in Hong Kong, but we never knew that there’s this Cow Fuwa riding Horse (called “Ma Su” in Chinese)!!

We’ve never seen the “Ma Su” Fuwa in Beijing or in Hong Kong at all!! Or else, we would love to bring it home with us too, to keep our below Huanhuan & Mama company!!

In fact, Dear & I never got to see any of the Beijing Olympics Fuwa or any of its other merchanises in our next 3 days staying in Hong Kong, which was really a surprise to us! Luckily we’ve already bought quite enough of the Olympics Souvenirs from Beijing. But then it would be even nicer if we could also find & buy more from Hong Kong too!!

Above shows Dear seated at Bay No 30, waiting for our transportation to our Hotel in Hong Kong.

I’ve put the rest of my photos taken inside the Hong Kong International Airport in the below Slideshow - see you later!