Took a flight to Hongkong (SQ866) at 1330hr and arrived at about 1715hr. After which, we (Uncle Kevin, Uncle Larry, Nic & I) took a taxi from the airport to Excelsior Hotel where the uncles will be staying, and to Stanley's house at Cairn Street.
After leaving the luggages, Nic & I took the MTR (train) to Kowloon to meet uncle kevin and a few of Nic's distant relatives for dinner. We had a sumptous steamboat (hotpot) dinner.
19 Feb 08, Tuesday:
We met up with uncle kevin for breakfast. We had congee at a nearby restaurant. It was simply delicious! Yummy!
After breakfast, we took a train to Admiralty Station where we took a bus to Ocean Park. We experienced all the rides, including the one that shoots up in the sky and drop down at a rocket speed, gosh.. it was terrifying but at the same time exciting.
Here are some of the pictures taken:
After Ocean Park, we visited the Peak:
As well as the the famous wax museum (madam tussaud) and took pictures with the "stars & famous people":
At night, we went to the Lady Street, a tourist attraction where imitation goods and cheap stuff are found. We didn't managed to get any things for ourselves, but I got a bag for my Sister and some art stamps for aunty serene.
We had congee as dinner.
20 Feb 08, Wednesday:
Met up with uncle Kevin to yum cha, but wasn't successful as the restaurant which we took pains to locate is closed when we were there, hence we settled for something light, thinking to eat dim sum later in the afternoon. So we went to a small chinese cafe to have our breakfast.
After breakfast, we did a little shopping around causeway bay, in shopping centres such as Times Square and Sogo. Uncle bought quite a few items, while I only got myself a trenchcoat from Giodarnos.
We shopped the whole day. At night, uncle brought us to the pier where we can take the star ferry from Tsim Sha Tsui back to Hongkong island. The night view of hongkong island is very beautiful.
As the whole day I was in boots, my legs were killing me and I desperately wanted to get home to rest them. We parted with uncle as he said he doesn't want to join us and Stanley for dinner. As we were still early, Nic and I went home to put our things, and also for me to change into my flats, before we left for Lan Kwai Fong to meet Stanley and his colleagues for dinner. After dinner, we went to LKF Hotel for drinks before heading home.
21 Feb 2008, Thursday:
Our itinerary for the day is to go to Macau.
We arrived at Macau at 1pm, after an hour's ferry ride from Tsim Sha Tsui. After clearing the immigration at Macau, we took the shuttle bus from the Ferry terminal to The Venetian Hotel.
The hotel was very grand and big. In Macau itself, there are quite a few big hotels, all with Casino.
Anyway, as the normal activity in Macau is to visit the Casino, Nic and I also decided to try our luck. We tried to look for Texas Holdem but to no avail. Thus, we settled to play Carribean Studs. Its real fun, but in the end, we lost!
So we spent the rest of the time venturing the hotel and taking a few pictures.
We depart Macau for Hongkong at 7pm. We then had our dinner at a noodle shop along Elgin Street (Hongkong). Though the shop's location is a little deserted, but the noodle served was delicious.
After dinner, we headed home to wait for Stanley's call ( he was suppose to meet us for dinner but he was held up at work). In the end, I was too tired to go out so Nic went to join Stanley for drinks.
22 Feb 2008, Friday:
Nic and I woke up early to pack our stuff, and also to travel all the way to Causeway Bay just to have our congee breakfast. Yummy..
After breakfast, we returned home to get our stuff and took a taxi to Airport Express Station. We checked in our luggages and took a train to the Airport (which took us only 25mins).
