New Year's Eve in Hong Kong

So this is how small the world is and how soon we got to see a couple of friends from the US...

Over the New Year's break, we had Tina and James stop by for a couple of days to celebrate the New Year in Hong Kong.

Hong Kong has only been celebrating New Year's with fireworks for the past two years. Previously, they largely celebrated Chinese New Year. Below is a little clip of the fireworks. I heard that the Chinese New Year one is 10 times more grand... which wouldn't be hard to do. It is pretty cool how they shot the fireworks sideways off of the IFC building though...

We got to enjoy the fireworks with several of us crambed into one of Tina's friend's hotel room at the Conrad Hotel (one of the top hotels in Hong Kong).

We hit up two popular party areas in the city - Wanchai and Lan Kwai Fong. Below is a picture of Lan Kwai Fong at 3AM. See how many people were still around hours later. I heard earlier that it was impossible to walk in that area right around midnight. This is what we call in Chinese "people mountain people sea" (aka. full of people for as far as the eye could see).

It was definitely an eye opening and fun NYE!

Happy 2009 Everyone!!!