6/12/12 Heading to Hong Kong

today we leave for Hong Kong, Guangzhou has been extrem ely hot, humid and it's been hard to be outside. We hope the evening in Hong Kong will be better.
The morning is spent packing, making sure all our paperwork is in our carry on etc.
Check out of the hotel, one last walk then heading to the Embassy to pick up Evangeline's Visa (in the chinese passport) then to the train station.
We check in our luggage with a gentleman, whom our guide just happens to have the cell phone number for.
Of course it's an arm and a leg in addition to the tickets to check in the bags.
Once we are allowed to board the train we find our assigned seats where we spend the next few hours.
The "restaurant" onboard is pretty decent and we have some Chinese cuisine.
We had some "neat" conversation with a russian man who lived in Florida for a long time now in China and now trades "herbs"... Interesting.
Once we arrive in Hong Kong we get a cab to the Intercontinental Hotel.
The hotel is pretty nice, but definitely could use a remodel. Being an Interconti and all... we expected to have our socks blown off by this place, but the Holiday Inn in Xian was actually nicer...
We don't even bother to unpack but rather take a nice long walk to the Boardwalk with a bunch of famous actor's handprints. Pretty neat. On the way home we get a bit to eat at an ultra expensive german restaurant.
Actually not bad food for a German place in Asia. Impressive.
We head back to the hotel after getting caught in the rain and go nighty-night.
see pics in post of 6/12/12