Arrested in China!

Well, nearly. Chris and I were going to take his friend Anne up to Shenzen on Friday straight after school for some Friday night shopping. We got there ok, but we had a few dramas at the border. Anne already had a visa to enter China, as she was heading there on Saturday for a tour.

Unfortunately it was a 1-entry visa, which meant if she used it for Shenzen she couldn't get back in the following day for her tour, and they wouldn't let her buy one for Friday.

That was a bummer, but really, it was a nice train trip and we decided to go home and go somewhere nice for dinner instead.

Except we were stuck! We had already gone through immigration but hadn't gone through customs and we couldn't find a way back to departures! We were stuck in no-man's land for quite a while. We wandered around trying to find an english speaking guard, and we got shuffled from person to person - each who took our 3 passports away, until finally we were taken to the interview office. We were half expecting cameras to come out to shoot some kind of "Border Security" show!

Anyway after all the dramas we finally got back to the train (the photo is of Chris and Anne looking traumatised), and back to Hong Kong, and we had a lovely dinner at Knutsford Terrace. I had my camera this time, so got some photos of all the (over the top) Halloween decorations.