Bowel Movements + Hong Kong = Relief

   About ten minutes ago I used the bathroom across the airport concourse successfully.  About 2 hours ago, prior to breakfast, checking in, going through security, going through immigration, finding two different breakfast foods for Michelle and myself, and traveling from another island to get here, I used the bathroom inside the hotel.  Last night, I used one of the dozens of free public bathrooms stationed all around the city.  Every one of these bathrooms was cleaner than any bathroom we had in India or Africa. I describe to you these details for two important reasons: 1) Hong Kong has returned to me my digestive tract's proper functioning, and 2) the cleanliness and efficiency of everything in Hong Kong is awe inspiring.  Please note that all of our morning activities took only 2 hours!  There were no lines anywhere, the free airport shuttle bus arrived at exactly 7:10 to our hotel doors per its schedule, the transfer to the airport train including a ticket purchase and a refund for unused money on the public transport money card (yeah, the REFUND) took only 3 minutes.  At the train station to go to the airport there were kiosks for each airline to check in and to check your luggage (this is prior to a 20 minute train ride to get to the airport).  Finally, when I needed the restroom here I went to the nearest one, found it occupied, but then noticed the map on the door that showed the directions to all other toilets and gave the walking time to the next bathroom...wow.  McDonalds doesn't need to say customers only on their toilets because there is likely a cleaner public bathroom right outside.  Hand rails on escalators have signs that they have antibacterial coatings put on every 4 hours, all buildings and bathrooms have automatic hand sanitizer dispensers, and heaven forbid there would ever be a bathroom here with soap that had run out! 


This is a picture of a toilet for you and your child!