January 1st: Arrival
Feeling ambitious we woke up relatively early and grabbed
the metro to Luoho!! John wanted to buy some gifts and I had wanted for him to
experience this crazy market! We spent the morning there looking around and
when we hit our wall we grabbed a cab home. We then proceeded to pack-up John’s
life and head to the ferry terminal to head to Hong Kong! It was perfect, we
made the 3:00 ferry as planned. J
We arrived onto the streets of Hong Kong by 6:30/7:00pm. We grabbed a cab to
our hotel, which ended up being in a wonderful location and settled in. Our
first night was spent simply walking the streets of Kowloon – what a beautiful
place!! We found a hole-in-the-wall to eat, which turned out to be delicious,
and bought our drinks at a 7-Eleven (the cheapest option).
January 2nd: Stanley Market/Lang Kwai Fun
Day 2 in Hong Kong: on our second
day we took our time in the morning. We lazed around and got into looking at
pictures from years and years ago which gave us a pretty good laugh! We slowly
got dressed and found our way to Stanley Market. We hopped on a bus and we are
very happy that we made the trek. It took us a while to get to where we were
going but the coast of HK is absolutely beautiful! The market was in a sort of
beach town where, after shopping around, we found a great little place to have
a beer and share a meal. This was one of our favorite meals! We had an
assortment of cheese, meats and pâtés with bread as an entre and then a
delicious goat cheese and spinach pancake. We sat and chatted for over an hour
before we made our way back to the buss. We did some shopping on the way back
to our hotel, including a trip into Tiffany’s (drool) and a 5 floor Forever21!
When we arrived back to our place we cleaned up and headed out to for an
evening in Lang Kwai Fong (“Fun”). We had a Great night out!! That place is
insane; it’s a hill filled with bars and restaurants and people! We ate a
delicious Chinese meal (which later came back to bite me after a cough on the
dance floor…no need to share more) and then decided on a place to have a drink.
Of course the place that we chose was on a super steep hill and I was the one
facing backwards… We each got a Hoegaarden; it was in a glass bigger than my
head (but of course when I had both hands on around it the glass looked like a
perfectly normal size). We went back and forth from bars and the 7-Eleven until
we selected one place in particular. No one was dancing but I didn’t see this
as a problem…within a half hour John and I were dancing with lots and lots of
strangers! Haha We had a great time out on the streets and in the bars of Lang
Kwai Fun and cannot wait to return J
How could I forget!! John made a new friend when we were out that had EVERYTHING in his book bag! When I say everything, I mean everything - even the cover to a hose. He wanted to be prepared for any situation that he may find himself in...hilarious guy!!
January 3rd: The Peak/The Sky Bar
We took our time this morning to get ready and head out. We
knew we had lots to do but also knew that it was going to be our last day
together. With our map we found our way to the bus that would take us to The
Peak tram where we stood in line for what seemed like a short forever. Once we
got our tickets we were squished in a crowd that all felt that they had to be
on the tram first – we spent the entire time making fun of everyone and their
anxiety levels. Once we got to the top we decided that The Peak was well worth
the journey! It got cloudy as the day went on but initially we got a pretty
great view of Hong Kong. Both John and I agreed that if we were to do it again, we would want to go up at night to see Hong Kong lit-up! We ate a delicious
meal at the top before heading back down to the real world and back to our
hotel to get ready for our drink on the roof of the highest bar in Hong Kong
(maybe the world?). We had attempted a drink at this same bar on our first
night but went to completely wrong building (turned out it was an office building)
but had decided it would be a nice thing to do on our last night together. We
got ourselves dressed up and walked to this building. After some confusion and
a few wrong turns we made it (it’s attached to the Elements Mall and the bar is
at the top of the Ritz Carlton). We walked in with confidence and no one asked
us if we were supposed to be there (our dressed up was not other people’s
dressed up). We took an elevator to the 103rd floor before
transferring onto another elevator to the 113th floor that took us
to one of the most posh bars both John and I had ever entered. It’s difficult
to put into words exactly what it was like but it was very impressive! We chose
to sit outside and we found our own private corner to look out onto the city –
it was a stunning view!! John had two small bottles of white wine in his coat
pocket but we quickly decided that sneaking wine from a bottle was not an ‘ok’
thing to do! Haha It took me some time before I could sit on the edge with
John, the height and the feeling of walking on a boat surprisingly freaked me
out (the building was moving like crazy). John seemed super confident that my
sitting on the edge would not tip the building over and convinced me it would
be fine – so I sat and looked at the lights with him for a while (hahaha how
embarrassing). From The Sky Bar we
decided to walk back to the Night Market for a yummy meal and drinks before
calling it a night; before we knew it, it was 12:00am and it was time to head home…
January 4th: Good Bye @ the Airport.
We may have slept 2 hours in total and I may have woken up
with a really puffy face; we stayed up chatting a little later than expected,
our wake-up call came at 5:30am and we were out of our room by 6:00am. We took
the metro and were able to transfer onto a really night Airport Express train
that got us to the airport with plenty of time to spare. We went to check-in
but couldn’t (too early) so we took everything and went for breakfast. It was
really nice to be able to relax and chat and not have to say good-bye right
away. After eating John was able to check-in. We walked around to find a seat
and before long it was time for him to go. We said our good byes and I waited
for him to get through security before I left. I got myself a ticket for a
limousine (large van) and went straight home to Shenzhen where I stayed in my
room for 2 days…I needed a couple of days to be sad, catch-up on sleep and
write all of these blogs that I have done about our holiday).
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