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Our Apartment and schools
Now that we have our apartment all cleaned up it's all good. That first night here was awful. The air conditioner was broken for the first week, and Shenzhen has weather that mirrors Houston; I'm sure you can imagine how unhappy we were. We took down all the DVD inserts that covered the biggest wall in the apartment and all the sad Christmas decorations directly across from those.
The DVD inserts ranged from Spirited Away to the Expendables. ...
Hong Kong Baby!!!
... and headed out for a wonder around.
Getting to the southern tip of Kowloon and looking across at Hong Kong island was an amazing moment. The size of the skyscrappers and the lights and the architecture, it took my breath away. Kate said there's a light show at 7pm every night so we're gonna go check that out tonight. We walked the street around the hotel (we were both knackered from the travelling). People have some serious money here. So ...
Mostly about the babies
... to his ego when he goes back to being 'normal’ in Australia! For the first time he’s made a distinction between French and English for the same word – it’s a big step! He doesn’t have a huge vocabulary, but until now he’s always just used the word he finds easiest to say for a given object regardless of whether it’s French or English. Well, for the first time he said to Arnaud ‘bras, bras’ indicating he wanted ...
At Hong Kong
... second level and purchased the ferry tickets. Through the departure gate and the route took us to a Customs and Immigration queue. Customs and Immigration? Realising that our passports were with the Purser on the Queen Mary 2, like all the other passengers, we had to double right back to the ticket counter. No refund. But we did manage to change our tickets for travel the next day. There was a card handling fee, of course, but in the end we had ...
Hong Kong, China (March 20 and 21,2012)
... in all, we were very happy with our experience with Big Bus Tours. We felt that we were able to see quite a bit of Hong Kong in our two days here and that it was an excellent value for all that we did. We hope to be able to use this company in future ports.
In general, we found that the people of Hong Kong were friendly and most willing to offer assistance in getting around and in helping to find locations. Many people do ...