Thursday, October 21, 2010
Last Day in Hong Kong
It's taken us a while to get up to date on this. Here goes. After spending a long day at Disneyland we were pretty beat, but still wanted to fill the last few hours in Hong Kong productively. We took the bus back to Tung Chung where we hopped aboard the Ngong Ping cable car from which we enjoyed fantastic views of Lantau Island. Lyssa spent most of the time cowering in the corner, a little bit afraid of the whole experience.
After coming around a mountain top, we saw the Tian Tan Buddha, which is the largest seated, outdoor, bronze Buddha statue in the world.
Upon getting off, we headed over. To get to him, we had to walk up 268 stairs with Christian strapped on to me.
Coming down the stairs, we walked over to the nearby Po Lin Monastery and visited some more Buddhist temples. The architecture was again impressive, though sadly it was incomprehensible to us, since we really had no idea what anything meant or represented.
We took the cable car back down and Lyssa seemed to do much better the second time around. We hopped on the subway to head back into town for some last minute sightseeing. We made it to New Kowloon to visit the LDS Hong Kong temple, which was very small so there wasn't much to see. Some missionaries were coming out (the mission house is on the same complex) and then talked with us for a minute and took our picture. They referrred us to across the street, where a new stake center was being built.
We walked over to a nearby shopping mall for lunch and to change Christian. Lyssa finally broke down and went to McDonalds, but I got more noodles. At this point all the walking around we had done around the city caught up with us and we were totally pooped. We crawled back to the subway and went back to the waterfront to enjoy one last view of the city. We had a fantastic time there and would love to go back (I would absolutely take a job there).
We took a ferry back to Mui Wo and hung out in the hotel, relaxing until it was time to go. We took the opportunity to finally go to the beach which was a thirty second walk from our hotel room and let Christian dip his feet in the South China Sea.
Our flight didn't leave till 1:50am. We got to the airport around 11pm and were looking for some food. Lyssa was craving chicken strips and there was a Popeye's chicken. I wanted to pay with plastic, but they said they only took cash, so I had to run around trying to find an ATM. I finally get some money and run back, but as soon as I get there they tell me they're closed. So not only do we not get any chicken strips, but I also got more Hong Kong dollars than I needed. The only place we could find that was open was another noodles place, which Lyssa didn't want. She got spring rolls instead. But other than that, and Christian freaking out as we boarded (we did get to board first as result though). All in all, a successful trip.
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