Today I had to go to Immigration to apply for my Hong Kong ID card. I had been to this place before when Brandon applied for his ID card back in February so it was not a complete unknown. But on that trip we had our relocation lady and a car with a driver. There was no effort that day. Today I had to work at it.

I caught the 8:50am ferry from Discovery Bay. It's about a 25 minute boat ride to Central. Hopped in a taxi and headed over to Immigration Tower in Wan Chai. I paid the super cheap fare--taxis are really cheap here--jumped out of the car, looked up to see which direction I should go, took a few steps... turned around took a few steps... couldn't get my bearings AT ALL. Even though I knew I was in the right spot. Discreetly as I could a peeked at my map in my bag and yep I was pretty much standing right in front of the building according to the map. You would think there would be a sign right? Then I saw the reflection of some flags from the windows on a building down an alley. Flags usually mean government right? So I went that way and when I got a bit closer I could see in the reflection the word "Immigration". Bingo. Thank goodness for the reflection!

Headed up to the 8th floor via escalator. And it was straightforward from there. I got scolded for filling out part of the form incorrectly. She said "next time you fill out like this" and I was like next time? Ok. And my picture is AWFUL. In a hilarious way.

After I was done there I took a little exploration walk around Wan Chai since I hadn't really been over there on foot before. And then I walked back to catch the Star Ferry to TST (in Kowloon) from the Wan Chai ferry pier which I hadn't done before either. We get forwarded mail from the USA delivered to a mailbox over there so I went to get our mail and then do some shopping.

From the Star Ferry pier in TST I took the ferry back over to the Central Ferry Pier where I caught my ferry back to Discovery Bay.

So nice to be out and about by myself! I really love this place.

Got back here to Discovery Bay just in time to meet B to walk G to school. And I have been so tired from all that thinking and walking I did earlier today that I can't hardly think straight. Jeez.