I'm here!

I've landed in Hyderabad and am all checked into my hotel. The room is big, and nice. I can't get the A/C cranked up high enough to make the room actually cool though. I tried to video tape on the way in from the airport, but don't think it will come out well since it's night time.

I saw men driving motorcycles & scooters with 3 people on them. Skinny wild dogs roaming around. Makeshift shrines / places of worship set up along the side of the road. You drive by blocks and blocks of dark, cinderblock, deserted nothing...and then you spot a raised platform, surrounded by multicolored lights (we would call them "christmas" lights) hung in front of beautiful colorful sheets, protecting the platform from the street. At the back of the platform is a large (6-7 feet tall) statue of Ganush(?) the Hindu God that looks like an elephant, all lit up and brightly colored. And there were 3-4 men sitting on the platform. I saw at least a dozen of these impromptu worship sites in a 40 minute ride.

Anyway, it's after midnight here and I'm hoping to get some sleep so I can be on the right time zone tomorrow. (12 and a half hours ahead of California). More tomorrow!

Here's a picture from the Singapore Airport:

Love,

Stace

Singapore...airport

Arrived in Singapore. Checked in to the complimentary hotel the airline set me up with. Took a super fast shower and then hustled back across the airport to try to catch the 1:00 PM. free bus tour, but I missed it by ten minutes. Next one isn't until 3:00, so I'm killing time in the airport.

I walked through the most amazing butterfly garden of all things. Hundreds and hundreds of butterflies!

This airport is HUGE and full of the top luxury designer shops: Gucci, Fendi, Tiffany, Mont Blanc, Sony, and Apple stores too. And of course there's also a Hard Rock Cafe and a Burger King.



I'm having a beer and a sparkling water at a tapas place. I picked this place to spend my airline voucher for "lunch" because, even though I'm not hungry, I felt reassured that I recognized the food in the pictures on the menu. Hey, at least I'm not at Burger King!



More later after the tour.

Love, Stace

Reboarded

Back on the plane now, soon to be on our way to singapore. There was a cavier restaurant in the hong kong terminal.

En Route

Sitting here on the plane to Singapore; we’re going to land in Hong Kong in less than an hour I think.  It’s 2:20 p.m. on Tuesday (back home it is anyway), and when we touch down in Hong Kong it will be 6:00 a.m. there.  The flight was non-eventful. Business class ROCKS. I have 2 inches of space on either side of me in my seat, which, by the way, reclines to a nearly flat bed. It’s unbelievable how much of a difference it makes to be able to recline, and move around, and shift your weight, etc…. I’m not sore & cramped, even after being on a plane for 14 hours.

 

Each seat has its own video screen with on demand movies. I watched the new Indiana Jones movie, and Sex in the City.  Both were good by the way. 

 

The food is great.  Dinner last night around 3 a.m., then breakfast this morning around 11. I’ve had champagne out of a glass (not plastic) and coffee from china cups. Chocolate croissant, spinach omelet, fresh fruit for breakfast….not too shabby. 

 

Feels like the plane is starting to descend, time to put the laptop away I think.  Hopefully I can get a wifi connection in HK and send this….

 

Love to everybody!

Stace