Yay!

Everyone has arrived safe and sound, if a little tired. They came on the best day- it was beautiful, sunny and warm relative to the past couple of weeks. I finally met them at 4pm (my time) after waiting around at the wrong gate hehe. Dad burst into tears, which set Mom off. Katy stood there laughing.

We then found our way to the hotel, which seems to be the chinese version of a travelodge, and dropped al the stuff off and exchanged gifts. I found a nice food court not far from the hotel and we ate at Spaghetti House for tea.

After that I took everyone to Langham Place shopping mall to have a look round. I think Langham place is my favourite mall out of all the big ones. There's about 12 floors and on the last 4 or so floors it's all independent little shops, which sell some great stuff, and Dad had a fit because he saw how high up he was and couldn't cope. He's going to have to get used to it- 12 floors is nothing here!

It was about 9pm by that time so I took them back to the hotel via the MTR. Tomorrow the plan is to explore a bit more of Mong Kok and do some shopping, yay!

7 Days till Arrival

Wow, only 7 days now until my family arrive here in Hong Kong. That means I'm halfway through my stay in Hong Kong. It's going far too quickly! Anyway, I've been busy planning what I'm going to do with them, finding out about good Chinese restaurants, about the displays and traditions. At Chinese New Year parents give their children "lai see" (red packets) with money in, and also married people to their single friends and bosses to their employees. So I think I need to befriend some married people this week hehe.

On Friday I went to a nice restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui called Paparazzi with Ms Man, Ms Wendy and Ms Pat to celebrate Chinese New Year. I had the most delicious meal ever- veal rolls with zuchinni, sage leaves and mozarella in the middle served with mediterranean vegetables. Mmmmmm! And for desert I had profiteroles with icecream and chocolate sauce, equally as delectable. And when we were settling the bill, I gave approximately what I thought I owed, but Ms Man gave me my money back...I thought it was really nice of them to pay for me like that. Especially since I'm down to my last $500 again. After the meal we did a bit of window shopping...

And that's basically the highlight of my weekend. The hike in Shek O was cancelled because it rained all day Friday and it would have been to dangerous to walk. They had a meal there still, but since it would have taken us 2 hours there and back we decided not to go. Instead we hired the last season of Sex and City and bought lots of chocolate. We have literally spent 2 days sat on the sofa. I did make up for it during the week though- I went to TST 3 times! Once to do the homework club, another time to buy parade tickets and then have dinner with Sam, and again on Friday.

Jo Dau for now!