After Disneyland the girls wanted to do some Hong Kong shopping. I was their navigator and tried to do some street photography along the way.

I also thought I could “hide” in some coffee shops while they did their thing. But coffee proved to be very expensive. A medium size latte is about HKD40 – 50 – that’s $8 – $10. Ridiculous! – and even more ridiculous was that I paid it. I thought maybe that’s a high end extra snobby coffee shop, but I checked a few other, including Starbucks – they were all the same price range.

There were certain shops the girls wanted to go to. Pandora, Zara, H&M. I told them to google their locations so we could work out a route. But they didn’t. So we found a McDonalds to use their wifi.

McDonalds had trendy decor. With upside down pot plants and cubicles for the tech-savvy loner types.

We found Pandora, but their prices were more expensive than in Perth. So the girls decided to get their souvenir Mickey Mouse charm in Perth!

Zara and H&M were more of a hit.

The next day was New Year’s Eve.

Back to Disneyland.We went later this time and stayed to the closing fireworks.We all rode the Grizzly Gulch Mine Car ride. That was really good. We watched the Lion King Show. We’d already seen the night parade, so we took advantage of the lower crowds and rode Hyperspace Mountain twice back to back.

 

We ate dinner at “Tomorrow Land” – paying $20 (AUD) for noodle soup. It was special Star Wars wanton noodle soup – complete with Yoda carrots.

The fireworks were great.

Back into town for the NYE fireworks celebration.

We heard there was fireworks over the harbour. It sounded spectacular, so we headed down Nathan road. We quickly realised there would be more than a few people doing the same thing.We pushed on nevertheless and tried to get as close as possible. We ended up about 500m from the harbour amongst a huge packed in crowd. It was very claustrophobic. We waited for the countdown and watched the fireworks through a “keyhole” between the buildings. It was ok. A unique experience.

We made out way back to the hotel, exhausted as usual. The girls wanted to eat (as usual) but Jane and my feet were aching and we just wanted to rest. Anyway right opposite our hotel we found a little restaurant Tsui Wah open until 3am. They had the usual grumpy waiters but the food was excellent.

Happy New Year everyone!

Ocean Park tomorrow.