January 24th: Day 8

January 24th, 4AM: I wake up, there isn't noise to wake me, it is cold however. In addition to it being cold, I also have a cold. This makes me very sad. I had a pretty bad cough, and woke up freezing. I put on my robe and then crawled back in bed after drinking a bunch of water. I slept in and woke up feeling rather sick. So, I really didn't do much. The only thing I managed to do was to travel downtown to apply for my visa for the China trip. Now, this sounds simple but I will assure you it was not. It is easy to get a China Visa if you're in the US, but for US passport holders in Hong Kong it is very difficult. Pretty much any other country can get it easily, but for USA passports? No. So, i had to call a bunch of places and most wouldn't even do it. I finally found that that would do it in 7 days (other countries only take 1-3 days) and went to their nearest branch. That's when they told me it would take 7 days and they would need to keep my passport the whole time, which is a problem because I was going to go to Macau on Saturday. So I came all the way back here and was going to simply go back in next week after I get back from Macau to make everything work. That's when I found out I had the wrong date for Macau. It turned out we were going the following weekend, so I had to go all the way back and talk to them again. It ended up costing $1080 HK (about 140 US) for a double entry visa so I can go twice. I also managed to get on the wrong bus one of the times and ended up far from where I expected to be, so it was a very long day and being sick made it much less fun. That was pretty much all I did. Not very fun.