We haven't been to Hong Kong since we've been living in Singapore so we wanted to get there once to see Jimmy's family and friends. Jimmy has to travel for work the next 6 weeks and I don't really want to travel in 2016 since I'll be pretty far along so this was our last opportunity to get there.
We spent Saturday in Macau which is about an hour ferry ride from Hong Kong. Macau is similar to Las Vegas - lots of big casinos. Macau even has a different currency from Hong Kong and we had to go through immigration. We were surprised in the casinos that the restaurants took the Macau currency but all of the games took Hong Kong currency so we ended up having to convert most of the Macau money we had taken out back to Hong Kong dollars.
On Sunday, we met up with Jimmy's cousin's family and had dim sum. The restaurant had a great view. From there we all went to Lantau Island. To get to Lantau Island, you take a cable car but the line was nearly 2 hours long! We ended up finding out that you could do a group tour which cost about $25 more a person but we would be able to avoid the lines which was awesome. The tour also included a bus ride to Tai O Fishing village where we were taken on a boat ride and got to see pink dolphins. The tour was well worth it! After the fishing village, we went to see the Big Buddha. While walking toward the Big Buddha, there were cows wandering around!
Jimmy's friend picked us up after we finished at Lantau Island and we went to have Roasted Goose for dinner - it was delicious! It was similar to the Peking Duck we have in Singapore.
On Monday, we spent the day just walking around and eating before heading back to Singapore. We had a great trip but I also realized I can't spend hours walking around without getting tired. Four more months until Yeh baby arrives!
