Thursday, March 19, 2009—Macau & Hong Kong
After our long day yesterday, we slept in this morning. Once we got cleaned up, we spent a few minutes checking e-mail and packing before heading out to eat a bite. We picked up some Portuguese pork chop buns, Taiwanese pepper buns, and Portuguese cream tarts and ate them in the square in Macau.
After checking out of the hotel, we spent a few hours in the casino and had some fun gambling. Joe and Lucy each won about $30 US and Don lost a total of $3 US. Not bad for a couple of hours, LOL!
We then headed to the ferry terminal and were able to get an earlier boat back to Hong Kong. The trip was a bit rougher than yesterday, but we managed to survive. A quick walk back to our hotel, and then a bit of time to rest before dinner at 8 p.m.
Around 6:30p, we left the hotel and walked through one of the many night markets along the street. There were plenty of interesting things, but no one bought anything. This area is is known as Mong Kok and is quite busy, as you can see from these pictures:
After our long day yesterday, we slept in this morning. Once we got cleaned up, we spent a few minutes checking e-mail and packing before heading out to eat a bite. We picked up some Portuguese pork chop buns, Taiwanese pepper buns, and Portuguese cream tarts and ate them in the square in Macau.
After checking out of the hotel, we spent a few hours in the casino and had some fun gambling. Joe and Lucy each won about $30 US and Don lost a total of $3 US. Not bad for a couple of hours, LOL!
We then headed to the ferry terminal and were able to get an earlier boat back to Hong Kong. The trip was a bit rougher than yesterday, but we managed to survive. A quick walk back to our hotel, and then a bit of time to rest before dinner at 8 p.m.
Around 6:30p, we left the hotel and walked through one of the many night markets along the street. There were plenty of interesting things, but no one bought anything. This area is is known as Mong Kok and is quite busy, as you can see from these pictures:
As we got near the restaurant, we walked past a guy writing Chinese characters on scrolls. What made this impressive was the fact that he had no hands, just arms down to slightly below the elbows. As you may already know, Chinese characters are made up of “strokes”, and strokes can be heavy or light—which they are determines the meaning of the symbol. This is not something that is easy to master for someone with hands, much less for someone without hands. The work was very impressive and Don bought a simple scroll from him for $50 HK (about $7 US). I will try to take a picture of the scroll once we get home (it is all packed for travel now) and post it here. But here are several pictures of the guy working:
By then it was time to meet everyone at the restaurant, so we hurried over. We had a group of six of us at a very small table! The restaurant serves sushi and sashimi, so we ordered many different dishes. Unfortunately, the table was too small for the camera to even fit, so there aren’t any pictures to share of the food. However, you can see a couple of pictures of the group here (notice how our friend K.C. managed to get into BOTH photos, hehe):
After dinner, we went to a dessert bar and shared a couple of desserts. Then it was time to walk Lucy to the bus station for her trip home and then to the hotel to pack and get ready for our long day tomorrow.
Tomorrow: No posts to the blog—we will be traveling back to Seattle. About 12 hours from Hong Kong to San Fran, then a 2.5 hour layover, then two hours on to Seattle and a bus ride home. Since we cross back over the International Date Line, even though we don’t leave HK until 5 p.m. on Friday, it will still be Friday (around 7 p.m.) when we arrive in Seattle—so, we do 16.5 hours of travel in only 2 hours! It’s almost like Star Trek, LOL!
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