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How I Did Hong Kong

Jenne Raub August 16, 2015

I booked my roundtrip ticket to Bangkok for my Southeast Asian trip on Cathay Pacific, which meant I had a stop in Hong Kong on the way there. Originally I wasn't planning to spend any time there, but as I was getting closer to the trip, I decided to see if I could change the ticket to allow me a few days there -- after all, who knows when I'd be back on that side of the globe, and I'd always wanted to check out Hong Kong.

So, on my return from SE Asia, I landed in Hong Kong and had three days to take in the city before heading on back to San Francisco.

*The futuristic ceiling of the (new) Hong Kong International Airport*

Hello, Hong Kong

Jenne Raub March 31, 2015

When I was six, my dad took off an overseas work trip that took him to Japan and Hong Kong. He was only gone for 10 days -- it seemed like an eternity -- and when it was time for him to come home, my mom carted me and my sister down to SFO to welcome him home.

I'd only been on airplanes a handful of times in my life and viewed all airline travel as inherently glamorous and cool. As we stepped on to the escalator at the International Terminal, all that glamour and cool magnified tenfold as I starred at the beautiful stewardesses jetting to and from the gates in their chic suits and perfectly coiffed hair. If I had thought the flight attendants on Southwest were cool, the elegant ladies of Pan Am and Cathay Pacific set a whole new level of life to aspire to. I immediately informed my mom that I was going to put my ballerina plans on hold and be a stewardess when I grew up.