Last Day in Hong Kong

Tim and I are sitting at the Hong Kong airport waiting for our flight to Brisbane. We are low on battery so this is going to be a quick one. (-:

Anyway, I think the theme of today was that we have enjoyed our time in Hong Kong, but we are SOOOO ready for Australia.

After we checked out of our hotel and stored our bags (this was a big deal because when we initially stored them our first day when we were waiting to check-in they came back sopping wet. We had to send our bags to be cleaned because they stunk. We don’t know what the water was from but it stunk. Of course the cleaning was free but a big inconvenience) we walked outside to rain. Blech! We both were like this sux because we pretty much had 8 hours to kill until we had to leave for the airport and little money so we were planning to spend the day outside. Well, we turned our frowns upside down and made the most of it. Our first stop was to Ikea. I am happy to report that Ikea in Hong Kong is the same as everywhere else. (-:

Next, thanks to Sanoop’s friend we had a good recommendation on a Dim Sum restaurant called MetroPole. I won’t lie – I didn’t want to go, but alas we went. Tim made the mistake of ordering chicken feet, which were disgusting, and all the tables around us laughed at us. Then we got some pork roll things, veggie roll things and some sort of beef. All in all it was ok and relatively cheap.

After leaving the restaurant we were happy to see that it had stopped raining and some blue skies were poking through. We decided to spend the rest of our money and head up to Victoria Peak. We are pretty fuzzy on the Victoria Peak history, but we do know that the British loved it. (-: To do this you have to ride a tram (note the tram was celebrating 120 years of service), which was cool, but the journey was quite steep…as in literally straight up. Really made me nervous, but the view was worth it. We even saw a TV show being filmed at the top. Of course we couldn’t understand anything, but it looked dramatic and the actors were young. Therefore, Tim and I decided it was Gossip Girl for Hong Kong. Anyway, we spent some time at the top walking around and then relaxing in the sun reading.

After Victoria Peak we retrieved our bags and here we are sitting in the airport.

I guess that is it for now.

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Next time we blog we will be in AUSTRALIA!!!! WAHOO!!!