We all woke up super early since today was Vincent’s and Rachel’s wedding day.

The parents, Sissy, and I went to breakfast at a little restaurant then Sissy, Dad, and I went to the ATM to try another pin for the debit card to see if it’ll work. It failed again. Whomp.

We went home and got ready for the tea ceremony part of the wedding. The groom’s side of the family was already present and then the groom shows up with the bride, bridesmaid, and groomsmen. That is Rachel with some of her gold jewelry. It is a Chinese tradition to give gold bangles.

After tea we went to eat dim sum for lunch then went home to try to take a nap. I was too excited for a nap so I read instead.

Then we got ready in our more formal nighttime attire, waited for the groomsmen to pick us up with their cars and headed to the Regal Kowloon Hotel.

We took pictures, many, many pictures in front of this backdrop and ate.

The food never stopped coming. We were stuffed and had to pack some home.

She walked down the aisle and they signed their papers. The slideshow made us all cry but the speeches killed us. They were short and simple but the words they spoke were so heartfelt and touching.

After many hours, the groomsmen took us all home. I applaud them since they have been up since five in the morning and it was already almost twelve at night when we left.

We came home reminiscing about the speeches and got ready for bed. We are all so tired that we made a pack to sleep in and leave each other alone tomorrow so good night world!

Wednesday, January 4th, I stayed over at Sissy’s to make traveling easier. We stayed up for as long as we could before taking naps.

Thursday, Janary 5th, Sissy and I woke up super early. Me to shower and eat breakfast and her to shower and do her last minute packing.

Once it was time to leave we called an Uber and made our way to the airport where we arrived and realized the aircraft counters weren’t open yet.

Soon enough we checked in our bags, walked through TSA and waited at our gate for our first part of the flight to Japan.

They fed us dinner, a snack, and breakfast. You’ll never go hungry. I will say that the food on Eva Airlines is much much better than Ana Airlines.

In between meals we watched movies and telly the plane provided, played games on my iPad, read on my Kindle, and slept.

Friday, January 6th is when the time change happens when we finally landed in our Japan layover. While we waited Sissy realized she forgot the pin to her debit card which is where my money is too. We are still trying to figure it out but at the end I know it’ll be okay.

As we got ready to board, we realized we were taking a bus to climb up to our aircraft. So inefficient and time consuming but at least everything was running smoothly.

After a couple of hours we were fed one last snack and a meal. We weren’t that hungry but ate since it would be very late by the time we landed.

I slept some more and read on my Kindle and soon enough we were picking up our luggage and walking through customs. Our parents and Kathy came to the airport to meet us and we took the bus back.

We stopped by 7 Eleven to pick up a bottle of water, milk tea, and some snacks. We came home to PoPo who made us sweet soup dumplings from earlier when they were doing traditional wedding things.

What a long day of traveling. Time to catch some zzzs since we will be waking up super early for wedding festivites.

… to the wonderful land of Hong Kong – or on the way, I should say. I am thankful I am able to go home and watch my cousin get married! We’ve been waiting for this moment forever and I mean forever. They’ve been dating for way over 13 years give or take. Crazy.

Rizzo propped himself up high to watch me pack. He knows what’s up.

I’m probably being squished in a three-seater reading my Kindle, watching movies that the aircraft supplies or my own that I downloaded off Netflix and Amazon, stuffing my face, or drooling as I sleep. It’s a long flight ahead.

Until then, see you soon Hong Kong.