The next day (Saturday) was the field trip to Macau. Originally it was the trip that the principal was supposed to take the resident students on. Some of the teachers decided to tag along because we got tickets to the show "House of Dancing Water". Well then two of the students had single-entry visas into HK and couldn't go. So the other students got lazy and didn't want to go. So the principal let them "opt out" and then realized that his visa also didn't allow him to go. So weird and disorganized. The teachers still went.
We took the Cotai ferry over. Travel time: 1 hr 15 min.
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| More London stuff in Sheung Wan |
We arrived and after all the cooler gloomy weather in Hong Kong, were completely drenched with sweat from the intense heat in Macau.
We had a contact on the other side who took us to the shuttle bus to the Grand Hyatt where our show was going to be, City of Dreams.
We ate some food and then went to go meet our tour guide, Michael, who drove all 7 of us in his van around the city. Some of the older teachers had toured with him back in 2009 and still had his contact. He was very friendly! We went to some government housing, the city centre, some churches, temples, and St. Paul's church which was the burned down left-over wall. My friend Laura was there and she insisted on eating a Portuguese egg tart at every start. I taught her how to say "po-tat" and the shopkeepers were entertained. Also, since it was Saturday, almost every place we went to had brides and grooms having their pictures taken!
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| She was wearing pink running shoes! ^_^ |
We got back to the hotel at 4:30pm to relax before the show, which started at 5pm. It was a great show!
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| My favourite part: a dragon made of bicycles. I wish they had a miniature in the gift shop. |
My pictures were pretty crappy. Here's some cool behind-the-scenes ones: http://www.cnngo.com/hong-kong/visit/behind-scenes-house-dancing-water-481618
After the show we had to kill some time because our ferry tickets had been booked for 10:30pm. So we looked around our hotel a little more.
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| Most of my self-pictures look like this. Bleck. |
Nothing much around our hotel so we walked across the street to the Venetian. Whooo....we ate, walked around, gambled a bit. I played slots and won nothing. =(
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| It sounded elegant but if you listened closer you'd realize they were playing Viva Forever from Spice Girls |
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| Nice watch! |
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| We took a free shuttle bus to the ferry. |
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| Bye bye Macau! |
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| Back in HK |
Didn't get back home until 1am. Tiring. Then I woke up early the next morning to head to Shen Zhen with my aunt. We went shopping at the wholesale district and then for massages. I didn't take any pictures because it's not allowed in the massage place. But it was like nothing I'd ever seen before. People get pampered really nice there. And the best thing? It was about $30 CDN for 3 hrs of stuff!!!
