The Krives' Trip to China: Hong Kong

Here is that missing day that we had in Hong Kong. So, I had forgotten what went on on this day. I looked at the pictures and now know what we did. We spent the first part of the day at bethany. I don't really know what we did, but we stayed there till 12 I think. Then we caught the ferry out to Hong Kong Island, and then took another ferry to Kowloon where we were going to meet up with the Huangs and their aunt.

We met in the shopping plaza that is right by the Star Ferry, which is the ferry that goes from Hong Kong to Kowloon. This is a international type mall. So, everything is way expensive. All the namebrand stuff is there. We didn't plan on buying anything.

So, we ended up meeting for lunch in the place. There was a dim sum restaurant there, and we went to that place. It was pretty good. Dim sum is a style of food where you get small portions of different food. My dad used to go to places where the servers would push around carts with stuff on them, and you would just grab what you wanted off the carts.

Well, those types of places have, apparently, almost all disapeared. So, now, you just order what you want. We had little cocunut flavoured marshmellow bunnies, pork meat, skin, and fat, some soup stuff, some duck, pigeon quarters, and chicken feet. There were also little dishes with tiny little fish in them.

So, the pigeon and chicken feet were new for me. Pigeon wasn't anything special, it was like a mini mini chicken. Didn't quite taste like chicken, but it was similar. The chicken feet were interesting. There really isn't any meat on them, but the way they are cooked, the skin just come off very easily. So, that is what you eat. I didn't have much at all, just one toe, but oh well, that was enough.

By the time lunch was over, the Huangs had to catch their flight. So, we said goodbye and then hanged around in the mall a little longer. We had dessert a the mango place we went to last night, and that was very good. My dad wanted to go see the YMCA, so we took the metro over.

We spent a little time there, and then we walked over to some famous hotel that is there. I don't remember what it was called, but i twas pretty nice. They had live music and even all of those namebrand shops inside. There was lots of jewlry and cloths in there. So, that was it in there.

Then we took to the metro to a part of town that was supposed to have lots of open air markets with lots of cloths and things. There was also a computer shop there. A big Chinese mall like place.

There really wasn't anything to buy in the computer shop, and Katherine wanted shoes, not clothes (at the moment, the next day she wanted clothes...). So, we ended up not really buying anything. So, we spent the rest of the night there, just looking around.

As I remember we left pretty late (like all of the nights we've been here). So, we got back pretty late, walked up the hill in the dark and went to bed.
-Aaron

The Hong Kong Island convention center