Museum Day

While Carrie did her paddling and studying today Frank, Catherine, Alex, and me went to TST. We walked through Chun King Mansion which is basically a hotel for people who cannot afford more than about $20 Hong Kong dollars a night. This is about $2.58 U.S. for a bed and bathroom. It is typically for people form 3rd world countries. The first floor has some amazing ethnic food and some grocery stores too. The majority downstairs are people trying to sell you things in stands. Frank had me try some food from a stand and it was very fried, greasy, and tasty.

After we left there the girls were starving so we went to try and find some place to eat. They wanted sushi at this place called sushi one which didn’t open until 12:30. So we had to go find something to do for 45 minutes. While walking over to the history museum to buy are tickets we spotted the science museum and a poster advertising a dinosaur display. Alex loves dinosaurs so we decided to go look around there for a while. There was only one dinosaur right when you walked in and it wasn’t the best, but the rest of the museum was really interesting.

There was this whole thing about how cars work, something my dad has tried to explain to me multiple times, and the visual model helped me to understand much better. There were also tons of things about your weight, calculating how long it would take you to burn off what you eat, and how much you are over eating. They had this thing showing how much you eat in a year and the scale of what your weight should be. This surprised me since no one in Hong Kong needs this; all of them are tiny.

On the next story of the museum they had a huge section of how to use energy efficiently, green house gasses, ect. This surprised me even more considering china puts out so much pollution! They do not recycle at all, and there is trash thrown everywhere on hillsides and places like that. Also most of their fruit and vegetables are wrapped separately in plastic. The air is thick with pollution and none of them seem to care one bit. It was good that they have the display in the museum though; hopefully it will inspire people to live more greenly. They also had a hall full of mirrors that were really fun, and scientific games. We then went to sushi and then went to the history museum. It was pretty interesting also.