Shopping

Today, Carrie, Alex and I dropped just Catherine off at her friends, much to Alex’s disappointment and resentment. After trying to get my visa for china we went to Stanley Market. When we got there all of us were hungry so we went to a restaurant right on the beach. I had some amazing French onion soup while people watching. It’s in places like that when you can’t believe that you are in Hong Kong. It is very much just white people and very westernized. Stanley was the largest settlement on Hong Kong Island before the British took over. It is very modern and on the southeast coast.

After eating we went through the market, which is a ton on tiny broken down stalls. But they have some good deals, cute clothes, and great souvenirs and gifts. We spent a good part of the day there going from beginning to end and then turning around and going back. I got some great gifts and some much need clothes. I packed for cold weathered Japan not the heat of Hong Kong! Shopping was great, and when we were done we sat down and had some pastries and coffee. I have had so much caffeine every day here, between lots of tea, coffee and red bull! Even with all of that, by 9 o’clock I am dead.

On our way home the roads where so narrow I felt like my mom. I was terrified and tried to stifle my gasps every time we turned a corner or a bus went zooming by. There was this one bridge that was two lanes but it should have been one, it was tiny! These double-decker buses just race down these tiny, very windy roads. So you have speeding traffic on one side of you and a bumpy rock wall on the other. UGH! At home we had some Japanese soup, just like the soup I had on my second night in Japan, but better!