Hong Kong

Monday 9th November 2009

Well we had a very busy weekend in Hong Kong. We left Singapore Friday morning and got to our hotel in Hung Hom early afternoon, so we set off exploring the area around the hotel. This consisted of a shopping mall (surprise surprise) and we went into the supermarket to get some bits and pieces and then found a lovely wine shop where we tested wine (mine was technically grape juice, but it came in a wine bottle, so I pretended - I also downed 3 glasses, so it was just as well it was grape juice). Then we headed back to the room and decided to go for a swim. Now what we failed to tell daddy was that the pool was outdoors on the 9th floor and whilst it was heated and technically the outside temperature was in the 20's it was very very very cold. But tradition states that you must go in the pool whenever you are on holiday, so a very quick swim was in order followed by a big group hug once we were all wrapped up in the dressing gowns!! The fact that the man holding the door open for us was in a white bomber jacket did not go unnoticed!!!

We then headed off to Knutsford Terrace for our dinner. We found a nice tapas bar that had room for us as we were a bit earlier than most people and I ate lots and lots of spicy salami -yummy!! Then it was home to bed.

Saturday saw us heading across to the island for some shopping. We went to Bumps to Babes and picked up some advent calender and stocking fillers as well as mint toothpaste for me (you can only buy berry flavour in Singapore!), then we got daddy some new going out clothes and headed back for our lunch and nap. Then we headed out to Kings Park to watch the Revo football match. Luckily for me Ollie was at the game as well to watch his daddy play so we spent the whole game chasing each other round - this involved much laughter and screaming, but apparently Revo won with their biggest crowd of the season (8 people in total!!)

Then Saturday night was early to bed for me whilst mummy and daddy went out on the town - German style, with some of the RBS people. They seemed to have a good night and definitely needed to clear the cobwebs out on Sunday morning so we headed off to the avenue of stars for some fresh air and coffee. I managed to successfully pick up a protest march - although as the sign was in Cantonese I am unsure what we were protesting about. After a quick stop off at a hotel for