sleep?? Who needs sleep?

Well,its 1:37 am here, and 2:37 pm at home and my body is wondering what I am doing to it. I feel great so its not a problem, but I wish I could just sleep on demand like Chelsea can. We are leaving shortly for Bangkok, actually at 6:30 am and I am excited. Yesterday was just fantastic, we saw so much in just one short day but it was wonderful. We started with the subway to all sorts of different neighborhoods and markets, the subway was too confusing so we didnt use it much. We went to a fish market that had creatures I have never seen before, and one stall had a net containing these huge toads, kind of bumpy on their skin and they were very jumpy in spite of being in a net on a table. Since Chelsea has owned and cared for most creatures of that nature as pets, we watched and to our sheer horror, the man took one out of the net and placed it on a block and butchered its head off right in front of us. Ok, next stall, a man cutting up very large fish, and his knife came down splattering us with fish juice, we hurried along as you can well imagine. Then to the bird "garden" as Chelsea already mentioned, moving along, to the flower market which smelled great. Hong Kong is full of smells you would not believe. Most I do not recommend you ever smelling. Then to the Man Mo Temple which was beautiful. The jade market where we bought some beautiful things, things I might just pass on by at home, but here they are treasures. A man at the jade market was showing me a set of little statues of chinese dragons and took out his lighter and held it to the bottom of the statue while looking at us and nodding and smiling, we nodded and smiled back pretending to approve of his first quality jade not wanting to reveal we had no idea what this meant. I guess it passed the burn test to his delight and ours. We stopped in shops and meandered all around before heading back to the hotel to wash off the fish guts, avian flu germs etc. and off again to the star ferry and out to Hong Kong Island. We went to Victoria Peak, the tram ride up was amazing, so steep and the fog broke as we go up there so the view was near spectacular. Wandered a abit more taking photos and had our first visit to the public toilets. Not sure I will go into that just yet, suffice it to say we laughed about it for a while.
So, thats all I can recall at the moment, brain is not working well, but the body says, go go go!
By the way, we are much taller than most here and we really stick out like, well, freaks by the way we get stared at sometimes, not in a rude way, just that we look different. I love the way the people watch us eat with our chop sticks, you know they want to laugh but most are too polite. The people here have been very nice to us. Are Americans the only ones who show so much emotion on our faces? I find myself working at not smiling as I normally would, which is almost all the time as it feels more, well, revealing than at home.

So, I will attache some pics, and write again from Bangkok. Love to all at home.
N

Does anyone know why jade does not burn and why this is a good thing?