The TRUE Greek King and Queen

King of Olympia

The King of Olympia, Kevin Ducker, made a strong showing today!-DTW

All Hail the King!

All Hail the 2007 Greek King from Athens!!

BED TIME!!

It's a little after 10, you all need to get to bed, the greek olympics are tomorrow...toga, toga, toga! See you there!-DTW

Ocean Park Theme Park

We will be going to the Ocean Park Theme Park during our time in Hong Kong...check out the rides!

www.oceanpark.com.hk

Hong Kong Shopping Spots

Those of you that are shopping addicts...check out the different shopping hot spots in Hong Kong....I need some tips on what to buy!-DTW

http://www.discoverhongkong.com/eng/shop/where/index.jhtml

Wang Dian Nu

Wang Dian Nu....means Mr. Wells in Chinese. If you go to the following website you can also find you name translated to Chinese! I will not be able to call you all each of these names unfortunately....that would be too hard to remember!

www.mandarintools.com/chinesename.html

American/Hong Kong Exchange Rate

The Hong Kong dollar is the common currency. The official exchange rate is fixed at 7.80 HKD to 1 USD, although bank rates may fluctuate slightly. Issued by three banks (HSBC [a.k.a. Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation], Standard Chartered Bank and Bank of China) and with different versions in which the style varies a lot, these multi-coloured, and increasing in size, banknotes come in denominations of:
$10, green or purple (The purple note is issued by the government)
$20, dark blue or light blue (old or new)
$50, purple or green (old or new)
$100, red
$500, brown
$1000, gold
Some shops do not accept $1000 notes due to counterfeiting concerns.
The coins come in units of
$10, in bronze/silver, circular
$5, in silver, circular, thicker
$2, in silver, wavey-circular
$1, in silver, circular, thinner
50c, in bronze, circular, larger
20c, in bronze, wavey-circular
10c, in bronze, circular, smaller
varying in a descending size (except $10 coin)

Information is courtesy of www.wikipedia.org

Royal Plaza Hotel

Just found out that we will be staying at the Royal Plaza Hotel in Hong Kong, a link to the hotel website is located below-DTW

www.royalplaza.com.hk/

Hong Kong Flight Plans

Wednesday April 4th

• Depart Bluegrass Airport 10:38 AM
• Arrive in Chicago 11:12 AM
• Depart Chicago 12:19 PM
• Arrive in Hong Kong Thursday 4:45 PM

Saturday April 14th

• Depart Hong Kong 12:45 PM
• Arrive in Chicago 2:20 PM
• Depart Chicago 7:15 PM
• Arrive in Lexington 9:35 PM