Making the best of it

So, in the end we all will need to travel to Hong Kong this weekend to change our visas.  It was the combination of many different things that timed perfectly to make this a longer-than imagined trip.  Chris' new university where he teaches had their 100th anniversary this week, so on the tail end of a national, 8 day holiday the school additionally was closed Monday-Wednesday of this week.  So Chris cannot pick up the invitation letter he needs until Friday and our visas require us to leave the country on Saturday.  But then once in Hong Kong, we will have to wait until Monday to begin processing Chris' visa and are booked on a flight leaving Wednesday.  WE gave ourselves an extra day to have fiascos, after last summer's eventful trip to Hong Kong.  Technically, only Chris has to go to Hong Kong.  The kids and I just have to leave the country.  We very briefly considered that Chris would go to Hong Kong by himself and I would take the 3 kids by myself to Korea for a long day of travel and then come home and wait for Chris to return 5 days later. Very briefly.  The amount of money saved was not significant enough to be worth all that travel by myself and time apart. We also considered the train option again.  I must say I was quite relieved when all the trains to any city near Hong Kong were fully booked, except for hard seats.  Hard seats are...well, what it sounds like...hard benches on a train that would pretty much be torture to ride on with our family for 24 hours.  Many people in this country do often ride that way.  Which reminds me how very thankful I am that we have the means to fly there instead.

So, we will just have to make the best of it.  We are considering a day at HK Disneyworld.  We have not told the kids, but it is near the airport, we have several days with time to kill.  If we can make it work we will.  Half of our stay will be at a guest house we discovered through friends that sounds great...play area for kids, near the beach, two meals a day provided and so on.

So, tomorrow will be a very busy day with Chris teaching his first day, homeschool co-op teaching for me and a trip on the horizon.  If the blog is silent for the next week, you will know why! But please think about us as we travel Saturday through Wednesday.