Thursday, February 7, 2013 I'm at home packing for my weekend to Yangon, Myanmar (Burma) when my cell phone rings. I answer it of course and am greeted with someone from Jetstar calling.....this can't be good!!
Eventually I'm told due to aircraft downgrade I won't be on the flight to Yangon. What??! Ooh my goodness me......I need time to digest and work out what next, but my jetstar customer service wants an answer now. So I ask him to repeat the options I have - 1) get a full refund; 2) take the next flight out..... Ooh yes this sounds like a good option - except the next flight out is Monday and my return flight is Tuesday so that's not going to work or 3) go somewhere else. So 3) it is and after a quick decision I choose Hong Kong. Means I can visit my friends and don't have to worry about a hotel. Given it’s CNY hotels would have been booked out months ago.
So I unpack my bag and repack for cold cold cold Hong Kong.
Friday, February 8 I head to the airport; I'm still feeling very annoyed I'm not heading to Yangon. My annoyance increases tenfold when I get to the airport and notice the HK flight and Yangon flight check-in desks are on the same on pod. Grrrrrr.
On arrival into HK I head straight to Kat and Sean's place in Park Island - is nice to be back! I have a couple of hours relaxing before heading to Central to meet Matt and Piyanut for dinner.
I have time on my hands so walk from the ferry pier to the mid-levels escalator then along Caine Road to Matt’s- ooh it's nice to be back in HK. Even better when I walk past quite a few places I use to go too often.
Piyanut and I enjoy some vino before Matt gets home. For dinner we head down to Hollywood road.
I somehow manage to get myself a taxi to the ferry pier then take the ferry back to Park Island.
Saturday morning Kat arrives back after an overnight flight from India.
That afternoon we have Namrata's Indian baby shower. While I'm still feeling annoyed I didn't get to Yangon it is lovely to be here and be part of the weekend celebrations. Plus it makes it so much easier catching up with everyone when they are all here celebrating.
Sunday we have Eryn's birthday celebration, again on Park Island.
Monday late morning we head into HK Island for a ladies afternoon tea baby shower at Shangri-la hotel.
Tuesday Kat, Sean, Lee and I head to ICC (Kowloon) to meet Matt for lunch before coming back to Park Island for a few hours.
Before too long it's time to head to the airport. My long weekend has unfortunately come to an end.
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