Travels

Helllllo from Shenzhen! I just looked at the preview for this. Apologies, but the enter button apparently does not work in China! Thank you everyone for your e-mails and comments. They are much appreciated!! After my last post, we headed straight to Macau. As you could tell, I was pretty excited for a rerun of my trip to Vegas last January. EPIC FAIL. Macau blew. First, there was only ONE craps table in the whole city, the only type of gambling I'll actually gamble money on (thanks to Sara's skills at getting old men to teach us in Vegas). Second, the buy-ins were HIGHER than in Vegas. Wtf. You can buy a meal for 50 cents in China, but you have to have a minimum buy-in of 25 dollars? Not cool. There was also an extreme lack of Blackjack and poker, and an excess of some game called Baccaret or some crap that Asians just loveeeee. Moral of the story: Don't be fooled. Don't ever go to Macau. Yesterday, we went to Victoria Peak, which is a mountain right behind downtown Hong Kong (I'm guessing it was downtown, but then again, the whole city consists of sky scrapers...). It's famous for its beautiful view of all of Hong Kong. So we take this tram up the mountain, and it literally climbs a 45 degree angle. I was scared we were going to plunge backwards the whole way. And as I'm already freaked out, the tram STOPS to pick up more people, while just chilling at this ridiculous angle. Scary. So we finally get up to the top, and there's this big tower which we have tickets to go to its terrace. We get to the top, and the tower is literally engulfed in a cloud. You can't see anything except white fluffiness, basically negating any reason for us to have been up there in the first place. Sad. Bryant then tried to introduce us to outdoor adventures by making us walk an hour long trail. It was sweet. However, extending it to two days of time, and up a mountain, seems... daunting. Anna and I were already whining within a half hour. Does not bode well for... yes, the day after tomorrow, I will be climbing a mountain. fml. Last night, we had FISH and CHIPS for dinner!!!!!!! Sooooooo gooooooooood. They were real fish and chips too. Yipeeeeee. We followed the dinner by a walk through SoHo on the escalator - basically Hong Kong built millions of escalators up the hill in this section of town to prevent the pollution of the taxis that were being used to climb it. So that was cool. Not as cool as happy hour - buy one get one free. And guess what. It was a Tuesday. What do you think of when you think of Tuesdays? Pub Quiz. What does the Bulldog Pub do on Tuesdays? Pub Quiz! Yipeeeee. The Pub was filled of millions of British Expats. The most stereotypical british people ever. I'm obviously a terrible brit too though because I knew none of the answers. They played British songs and whoever guessed the fastest got free shots. At the beginning of one, Anna and I screamed out Katy Perry. We were so so wrong. The reader of the questions (much much better than that girl at the Joyce) just stared at us. Whoops. Now that we have left Hong Kong, here are my final observations: Favorite Part: The Buildings (are really cool) Most annoying Part: Being asked by at least 200 men if I wanted to buy a watch. Diversify people! Lease favorite Part: Macau Most used item packed: Umbrella Favorite Food: BBQ Pork with Black bean sauce Vocabulary learned (written in Chloe Chinese): Wa Shuo Inguen: I speak English Knee Shuo Inguen Ma? Do you speak English? Howa: Good Bu Howa: Not good Shia Shia: Thank you Now we are in Shenzhen! During the immigration process, my temperature was taken. They do it by scanning your forehead, like in I am Legend. Thank god it was 35.8 or I would be quarantined right now. We have a song now. S to the W to the I N E... And we try to cough around people with masks. We are staying with Anna's family now. Apparently tomorrow it is a holiday. The story according to Anna: There once was a guy who loved China so much he killed himself by jumping off a boat and now we celebrate by eating rice. Anyways, we are apparently going to go have a drinking competition Anna's cousin now. Miss you all! Sorry this was long again... e-mail me your updates!!!