We've landed.

After a 3.5 hour flight, a 10 hour layover, a 13 hour flight, a 3 hour layover, a 3.5 hour flight, and a missing day (I still don't understand that), we have made it from Texas to Hong Kong!

Yes, there's more...
[Jetlag is making my head a little swimmy, so this post is going to be a bit travel journal-y. We'll try for more entertaining and/or thought-provoking in the future.]

Despite their length and number, the flights were uneventful. We were even screaming-baby-free over the ocean (the same cannot be said of three of our other flights). We found Korean Air to be extremely polite and accomodating. Even the food was surprisingly good (relatively speaking) and served with real silverware and china. Although, aren't metal forks more dangerous than the shampoo bottle I couldn't bring on board? One annoying thing they did that I don't remember on other trans-ocean flights was to insist that passengers eat when we were served, including raising our seats and putting up with ALL the lights back on. As for the layovers, we entertained ourselves in LAX by finding the closest LA post office using the rental car shuttles only and in Seoul by using the Internet. The Seoul airport offered free internet to transfer-ers like ourselves, something every civilized airport should consider!

HongKong itself has been great. We are staying with a friend of mine from grad school. She and her husband live in a very nice but tiny apartment in central Hong Kong, so the view is pretty impressive: We tried to stay up late last night to combat jetlag, but ended up going to bed at 7:45! We'll see how we do tonight. We had a great time exploring central HongKong today, but the full day of walking is already making the couch and TV more appealing than this computer. Stay tuned for a future Name-That-Food post with photos from today... the things we saw on Dried Food Street were something else! Oh, and Queenie, we went to that cheap, little noodle shop today for lunch! Fabulous!

(Oh, right, Texas. Let me sum up the weekend so the previous photos make sense. We stopped in Texas last weekend to help our friends Nate and Milli celebrate their wedding. We know them from All Angels Church in Manhattan and were excited at the chance to see some old friends. As Milli's family is Indian, the wedding was a bit different from the usual American fare. I, along with the other women, got my hands "painted" at the Mendhi ceremony on Friday night with beautiful designs that should last quite a few days. The party also included plenty of good food, music, and dancing, as all good parties should! The wedding on Saturday was a beautiful and colorful mix of American and Indian wedding traditions. Josh and I borrowed clothes from some of our friends from New York who had also flown out for the occasion (thank you Graham, Milind, and Bekah!). However, Josh was missing black socks, and thus the photo of his feet! Sunday we visited Fort Worth with some friends from England who were also attending the wedding. We got to see "real cowboys", just as they were hoping, and we even got in on a junior regional rodeo. I guess that's it. Congratulations to Nate and Milli!! And now we are in HongKong. Wierd...)