After our early morning yesterday, we opted to sleep in today. I think we woke up around 11 a.m. It felt awesome. Sadly, Uncle George's computer decided to die on us that day. We weren't able to use the internet. Frankly, that thing needed to be put to rest, it was clearly on its last leg. As Uncle George put it, the computer was older than his wife! Heheh, sorry Aunt Donna!
We packed up the wedding dress and cheong sam, and the souvenirs that we had accumulated to date, and headed to the General Post Office in Central to mail our stuff out. We encountered a crazy woman screaming at the top of her lungs at some guy
in the post office. Literally, she had gone postal. The guy had to call the police to have her escorted away, apparently, she had been stalking him. Scary. It was hard to part with my dresses. I decided to insure the box. Interestingly, in order to insure the package, I had to write on the package exactly how much money the box was insured for. To me, that seemed a bit odd. It was almost like telling theives, "Hey, this box is worth $$$, please steal it." When I pointed this out to the the postal worker, she just smiled and said, "it's insured, if it gets stolen, you'll get your money back." Dude, I don't want my money back, I want my wedding dress!!! To calm my nerves, she suggested I expedite the delivery, so that it should arrive on Tuesday. Hopefully it's there in one piece!
Because we enjoyed it so much, we decided to eat lunch at Tasty Congee and Noodle Wantun Shop in the IFC again. Eric tried the shrimp wantun noodle soup and I had the braised beef on dry noodles with oyster sauce and clear broth. We shared an order of char siu bao. It was all very tasty.
I've come
to love the top-notch service you receive in Hong Kong. Even in the public bathrooms in the mall there is a custodian who checks each stall after someone comes out to clean it before the next person goes in. The bathrooms are spotless! We then went back to Roger's to pick up Eric's new suit. He put it on and it fit perfectly. He looked so handsome! The shirts fit nicely, too. Roger really knew Eric's taste and body type and molded the suit to fit him perfectly. The workmanship was excellent. We were very happy with the final product. Eric says his favorite part of the suit was the lining, he loves the blue lining. I took a quick nap and then we got dolled up for dinner at the Hong Kong Club with Uncle George, Aunt Donna, Michelle, Dominic and Michelle's boyfriend, Danny.
It was the first meeting of the boyfriend. Lots of tense anticipation at first, but it ended up being a fabulous night. I wasn't that hungry, but Eric devoured everything. They served souffles at the end, and I shared Uncle George's ginger souffle. Perhaps one of the most amazing desserts I have ever eaten. Eric looked fantastic in his new suit. My GQ man. The restaurant was very nice. I got a bit cold, so they brought out a shawl for me. Sigh, what great service. I'm getting spoiled. For pictures of the day, go to:
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Day 34 - "Last Day in the Motherland" - Hong Kong, China
Day 34 - "Last Day in the Motherland" - Hong Kong, China
Our last full day in HK, naturally, we slept in. Eric spent the better part of the morning trying to fix Uncle George's computer, but eventually, we decided it was probably best to just buy him a new computer. That thing really did need to be put to rest.
We started the morning running errands. We packed up Eric's suit and some other clothes and mailed them off at the post office. It was a busy day at the post office. At least this time, no one going postal.
We found out Eric's uncle's horse was racing today, so we went to place a bid on Natural Nine, the #9 horse in the 9th race. Unfortunately, it did not win :(
We then met up with my aunt and cousins again to head to chi fu for lunch with my grandmother. She's such a cute old lady. So scatter-brained and funny. She seemed surprised that I was taller than her which cracked me up. Mentally, she's perfectly fit. Physically, she's definitely gotten a bit older. It's sad to see how difficult it is for her to walk around when she's still so spirited.
We pigged out at lunch and then headed back into town. We headed to Admiralty with Michelle and bought some flowers for Aunt Jamila and a new computer for Uncle George. We then headed to Mong Kok to buy a DVD burner for ourselves. Man, it was packed out there. Everyone was out and about shopping. They had some Samsung promotion going on with these asian girls wearing skimpy outfits. It was a little bizarre seeing these guys with cameras taking pictures of these girls. Eric was intrigued and decided to take a picture of the guys taking pictures of the girls.
Our last night in HK, we decided to have a nice canto meal at Yung Kee in Central. We had their famous roast goose, two veggies with crab meat sauce, fish maw and minced chicken soup and young chow fried rice. Everything was very tasty and a nice end to our trip to HK.
Now it's time to set up Uncle George's computer and start packing. We had out at 10 am tomorrow to Macau to catch our flight back to Bangkok.
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