Ready to go HOME!

No place like home. As much fun as this trip has been, I think we are all ready to go home. We are at the airport right now, everyone is tired, but excited to be heading back to the good ole USA.

Yesterday saw much of our Fellows class head over to the island of Macau. They island is about 1 hour away by hydro boat. We had an adventure trying to make it to the boat on time. No one knew where to pick up their tickets that were ordered through the web, then we had to clear immigration and board. Some people missed their original boat at 11am, but were able to take the next one. We arrived in Macau to find the craziest immigration line that I have ever seen.
It was like those scenes of the Mexico/USA crossing, you see in movies.

It took us about 45 minutes to get through and then we had to wait for the other members of our party to join us. We spent the time waiting getting hounded by taxi cab drivers and tour operators. An hour or so later, we met up with the rest of our party and proceeded to take a free shuttle to the Star World Casino.

Upon arrival at the casino the group broke up a bit, with some people choosing to go inside to get lunch/gamble, while others decided to head to a tall Tower building they had heard about.

About 4 of us decided to have lunch and we found a nice small buffet, that featured many interesting items, such as salmon sushimi, octapus, japaneese noodles, and some of our favorite American staples. We then headed down to the casino, where we quickly realized that this part of the world definitely loves their gambling. It couldn't have been past 3pm, but the casino was rocking! We quickly were taught a lesson in Macau gambling, and I proceeded to spend about $50 USD on 2 very expensive drinks.... ;-)

The people that headed to the Tower bunge jumbed off the tallest bunge jump building in the world. We have pictures and video to document their amazing flight....

We then went to the show at the Venetian, which interestingly enough is built identical to the one in Las Vegas. Every detail is identical, even the layout is the same. Its so big, they had to give me a map in order for me to find the theater. The show was great, I only took a short nap. We then headed back to the boat terminal to return to Hong Kong. During our travel to the boat I managed to lose my return ticket only to find it moments before arriving. The day was great, and we got to relax a bit before our return.

I can't wait to see everyone...

Greg