On Friday after work, Babe and me set off to meet Dad, Mum and Joanne at Grandma's place. Ride up there was very interesting. I slept through the way from HK Airport to the border of Shenzhen. Got to the border and then transferred to a car and that was when I was wide, wide, wide awake! The car that was in was like some Xiao Gou Bai (which means Little Dog Brand, in other words, no brand), made in China car and that buddy was travelling like at 130 to 140 km/hr through out. The suspension of the car was almost gone as well. I was like....hmmm...Remember, I've no insurance and I don't want to crash now....Survived and managed to reach the hotel safe and sound and we have dinner with Grandma's relatives. To me, it was interesting to see my relatives in China, most of them, we've never met before. Only 2 persons missing was Jackie and Joe. It's strange how the family never really went up to China as an entire family before. Someone is always missing.....
We stayed in the hotel where we had our dinner. It was hard on Babe, he's used to the five star hotels and this hotel is a hotel with an interesting blend to it. Very rustic and local. I mean local as in, people run to the trolley and grab whatever dimsum they can get their hands on just when the trolley is being pushed out. Dad was nice to pay for our hotel and even our shopping. We had breakfast with Grandma and Dad before we headed back to Hong Kong. It's hard at times being a global family. Grandma in China all the time, Dad spends lots of time in China as well and us in Hong Kong and then the rest of the family is in Singapore. But I'm still thankful that we're still close enough to Grandma and we can see her whenever we want to.
Last night we were in Tsim Sha Tsui shopping and guess what we found??? An ACS tanktop in the ladies department!!! Something very very wrong here....First ACS in HK??? Next in the ladies department??? We had a great laugh!
When we reached HK yesterday, we had a full day ahead of us. We went to the Dried Seafood Street to get some stuff for mum and Babe's mum. After that, we headed to the Peak and here are some pics of us just being silly and dumb! After the Peak, we went to Tsim Sha Tsia for dinner and then to shop. By the time we got back, Babe was about to die! But have to give him credit, he did really well over the weekend. He survived through Grandma's place and also out in the city last night!
This is me carrying Joanne's backpack. We're on the way to the airport to send Mum and Joanne off. Joanne thought that it was fun that to take a pic of me as this is one of the rare times that I'm actually carrying a backpack. People who know me well enough know that I'm not the backpacker type...Miracle....We thought that with the amount that they bought, they'll never be able to bring everything on board and guess what??? They did!!!! Overall, we did have an absolutely great time....Such a waste that Jackie was not here....
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