It's 9:35 am and here I am sitting in Hong Kong International Airport, waiting for another 10 hour flight to Moscow. I don't really have much to update on because as you can imagine, while sitting in the same chair for 10 hours nothing really life changing happens...unless they bring you chocolate mousse cake (which was delicious by the way). Since pictures are worth a thousand words, I give you the equivalent of 4 thousand words, in pictures.
Here is the lobby of the hotel we stayed at.
View from hotel room at 6am.
Hong Kong Airport is so massive! You need to take a shuttle everywhere.
So many hills and mountains!
Next up, Moscow and then St Petersburg!
When I told my friends it would be a very long night for me, I wasn't kidding. Mum and I stayed up packing the suit cases until 3 in the morning but the surprising thing is, I feel fine after 3 hours of sleep!
The main thing I was worried about was not being able to fit all of our clothes. In the end, we somehow packed so efficiently that the suitcases ended up being half empty so then it came down to a free for all throw in of clothes between mum and I. Dad was sleeping. Suffice to say, I should be just fine for the next 5 weeks.
To all my friends reading this blog and to all of those who aren't, I just want to say that I'm going to miss you all so terribly. Five weeks is quite a long time, I'm afraid of coming back and finding that things have changed but I suppose that is inevitable. Take care of yourselves, eat lots of oranges and always be happy.
...just like this little Mongolian girl and her camel! (I love this photo).
Next time you'll be hearing from me in Hong Kong, so keep checking for updates! Although I can't promise they'll be interesting.
Go Team Judo!
The first stop on my trip will be St Petersburg in Russia. I thought that since I'll be there in less than two weeks, I should do some research on all the historical buildings. Some proper research because I don't think watching Anastasia counts. Or does it?
Anyway, I was reading up on the Winter Palace when I came across a museum called the Kunstkamera museum. Even though I speak fluent Russian, I still think it's an odd name. But don't worry, it gets even weirder.
Built in 1727 on the Neva Riverfront (the third largest river in Europe) this museum is dedicated to preserving "natural and human curiosities and rarities". Intrigued? So was I, until I decided to search on Google Images.
At first, my intention was to find images depicting the building exterior but instead I found mutated babies in jars. I guess this is what they meant by "curiosities and rarities". After some further reading I found that the museum holds a large collection of human and animal foetus's with anatomical deformities.
What do you guys think, very cool or very gruesome?
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