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The End

On the night before our last night in town, we took Sue and Jacob out for dessert at the Intercontinental. They SO loved the view. . .and the sorbet!

The last day of work was very quiet. Most of the task force team had returned to the U.S. or they were taking a holiday before getting back to work. Trish, Michael, Gerianne and Amie went to Beijing, Miguel is off to beach in Singapore and Grace and Nick are touring China and Tibet for the next two weeks.

A few of the broadcast team are staying behind for one more week to wrap things up, so everyone won't be back in the office in California until October 3rd.

As I sit here writing this from my kitchen table in Foothill Ranch, CA, it almost all seems like a dream (Funny how jet lag will do that to you). It has definitely been a life changing experience to be able to live in another culture. We've met people, seen things and gone places that I couldn't have imagined. I mean, come on, do you really think I thought I'd see live wriggling eels at a fish market in Mong Kok? Or rows and rows and rows of jade in Jordan? Or even imagined broadcasting to all of Asia for the opening of a Disney theme park? I started at Disneyland as a float driver in the Electrical Parade in 1986 for goodness sake!

The one thing from the trip that I'm most thankful for is that I was able to experience Hong Kong with my family and some of my best friends in the world. It's the people that make the journey the most memorable.

Well, I hope you've enjoyed reading the blog on us as much as I've loved writing it.

Now if only Tom could do a project in Paris. . .

So there you go. Our trip is over. Thanks for visiting!

Darren, Tom and Tim on Tom and Tim's last day at Hong Kong Disneyland. - Poor Darren has to stay until November!! I don't know if he's laughing or crying!

My dad kept asking how many times we've seen Jackie Chan on our trip. Here's Tom and Jackie. That makes one.

And this way. That's two.

And this way. . .That makes 3!

Tom's artsy photo of Hong Kong

Tom does his "tourism board" pose with Maggie and Katie.

Another fabulous shot of the skyline.

Sue and Jacob with Hong Kong.

Sue and Jacob on Avenue of the Stars on Kowloon.

Bottom's Up Jacob!

This is what an order of sorbet looks like at the Intercontinental.

Blog Issues

I'm trying to post new pictures, but Blogspot seems to be having some issues. We'll be home on Sunday, so I'll try again then to wrap up our trip.

The Event and Relaxing Afterwards

The last few days have gone by so fast. They say time flies when you’re having fun, so I guess I must have had a heck of a time!

As difficult as this project was, because of facing the unknown media with unknown resource in an unknown country, it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had working on a press event. The one thing that was a “known” were the people, and the broadcast team I’m a part of is AMAZING.

As a celebration of the end of the event,Grace, Michael, Amie, Trish, Gerianne, Jon and I went to the Peak for dinner and then the Intercontinental for drinks. It was 12:45am and Grace made the suggestion that we go to a place called Tai Pan and get head and neck and foot massages. Miguel, one of the broadcast publicists from Walt Disney World, has been going there several times a week, so we knew it was on the “up and up.”

So there we were at 1am getting massages in Hong Kong. It was a bit of a “girly” thing to do for Jon, but he got over it pretty quickly.

Tom and I in front of the Castle stage after the ceremony.

The first offical guests of Hong Kong Disneyland. I took this photo five minutes after the park opened.

Our spacious (not) O.B. Truck.

Ladies and gentlemen, I present the Broadcastresses of O.B. One!

Mickey in his Chinese costume.

The monitor wall.

Trish and our first shift vision mixer Arthur.

That's Gun, our audio guy and Ho shading cameras in the truck.

The truck was so small that we had to put the tape feed room in a container next to the truck. Here are our CTC crew working with a station from Singapore. The CTC guys were GREAT!