Becca and Ryan flew around the world to come to China to visit and I walked them around a few of my favorite spots on the 23rd.
We woke up early on the 24th in Guangzhou to make the train to Hong Kong.
This little girl Phoebe kept looking at us and walking by. She was so shy and wanted to talk. We started talking to her and I practiced my Chinese and she practiced her English. She was so cute. When I used a wrong word she would scratch her forehead and have the cutest look. I have her one of our granola bars which she promptly ate! I so need to practice my Chinese more but have learned some phrases and have enough to get by and cause confused looks!
In Hong Kong we dropped off our bags and went to find some food. We came back to check in and napped (at least I did.) We went for a walk to do some shopping. It is so commercial here. And, I’m not a big shopper.
Becca and Ryan surprised me with a cheesecake for my birthday. We went to Kowloon Park to eat it. Mango cheesecake! It was yummy. I can’t believe we ate the cheesecake for dinner.
More walking the streets and looking at Christmas lights.
On the way back to the hotel, they had so many singers and a parade. So many people everywhere. This place is insane.
One of the malls caught our attention with this:
Inside they had a ball pit for kids. This was taken on the second floor looking down.
We walked a lot and sampled some great dim sum. Ryan loves egg tarts. Becca loved all of the dim sum.
We bought bubble waffles and bubble tea.
A good birthday, a good night’s sleep and now it is Christmas! Off to hike Dragons Back mountain!