Just Another Manic Monday

This was my morning yesterday:
5:15 am--Alarm goes off in our hotel in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
5:20--Trying to wake the unwakable husband and kids
5:30--Check out of hotel
5:55--Get on the subway at Causeway Bay
6:00--Switch to the Red Line at Admiralty
6:05--Get off at Tsim Sha Tsui and walk underground to the East Rail Line
6:20--Get on the Train to Lo Woo
7:30--Cross the border at Lo Woo and get to Shenzhen
7:40--Wander around looking for a bus back to Clifford
7:54--On the bus heading home
8:15--Sleeping on the bus
9:00--Panicking because the bus is at a dead stand still on a bridge for at least 20 minutes
10:12--Arrive at Clifford bus station
10:15--On bus to Dynamic Garden
10:25--Walk in the door to my apartment, change my shirt and shoes, and back out again
10:28--Pedaling my bike as fast as I can to school
10:34--Walk into the school right as the warning bell rings for my first class
10:35--I begin teaching class.

We had a CRAZY weekend in Hong Kong. I was rushing to get back to work only because I tried to go back Sunday night with Britton and realized that we took the WRONG passports. We had Jason and Haley's passports and he had ours. We had to jump off the train and head back to the hotel. By the time we got there, it was too late to go back to China. And this was the end of a weekend full of crazy things. Here are some of the lowpoints from the weekend:

• Britton throwing up on me twice on the bus (and I only brought one change of clothes since we were only planning on being there one night)
• Chloie not being allowed through the border to Hong Kong, so they had to go back to Clifford to get some paper
• Me crying in front of the border people, begging them to let us back through to help Jon, Mijoung, and Chloie
• Not being able to find them, so just heading to Disneyland without them
• Trying to meet up with Jon and company later that evening at the Mongkok Subway station (There are 2 different Mongkok subway stations--who knew?), we wandered around looking for them for about an hour. This alone could merit a whole post. It was quite comical I'm sure if someone would have been watching us. We were both in a few block radius looking for each other. At one point, Jason's phone died and we got out the charger, found an outlet on the side of the road, and plugged it in to charge. We must have looked pretty silly sitting there on the sidewalk with a phone plugged in, trying to figure out where they were. This would have worked, except that then Jason's phone ran out of minutes. So, it was back to wandering to look for a pay phone. When we did finally contact them again, they were seriously, right around the corner from us. We hung up the phone and they walked around the corner.
• Sleeping on the top bunk with Haley (Fun, but not the most comfortable night's sleep)
• Jon, Mijoung, and Chloie needing new visas in order to get back into China so we had to stay until Monday
• Trying to find another hotel for 2 more nights
• Buying new clothes at the market, then having none of them fit me, so I still ended up wearing the same shirt for 3 days (at least it wasn't the one that got thrown up on)
• Then, worth being mentioned again, taking the wrong passports when trying to go home--Where was my head? It was such a fitting ending to crazy few days.

The weekend actually was so much fun too, but EVERYTHING went wrong. Luckily, we are all back safe and sound. I'll be posting some pics of the GOOD things that happened over the weekend soon.