Life with Kids

Day 3

It's Ocean Park today, we woke up bright and early and took their bus service down to Hong Kong Central. Then we proceed to Admiralty MTR station, take Exit B, there we buy the Tickets to Ocean Park, the ticket cost us HK$350/adult and HK$250/child and Baby FAN (below 3) was free. Then we just hopped on their special CityBus No. 629 (HK$10.60/adult, $5.30/child below 4) to Ocean Park. It was a nice an pleasant ride and their is a Mobile TV on the bus and it's air-conditioned.

Here's basically our itinerary at Ocean Park:

Entrance

Baby FAN trying out some of the souvenirs sold there

Lowland Gardens

Giant Panda Habitat

Ocean Express - underwater train

Amazing Asian Animals

Giant Panda Adventure

Panda Village - close up with a salamander

Gold Fisth Treasure

Kids looking at the goldfish in the big tank

Whiskers Harbours - kiddies area, the kids' favourite part of the park.

Kids has a nice ride on this mini train

Kids trying their hand at one of the many shooting games there

Merry-Go-Round

Kiddy Ride - never fail to keep the kids occupied

It's Lunch time - let's feel our tummy up with Udon, Spaghetti, French fries, jellies and lots of cold drinks.

Performance at the Sky Fair

Trying to get a nice picture of the kids with one of the many figurines there...but it proves to be more difficult then expected....

Cable Cars: a 10 min ride up to the Highland Area

View from the Top

Marine Land

Pacific Pier

SMALL FAN trying hard to get a glimpse of the Sea Lion

Kids fascinated with the sea lion underwater

A snapshot of Ah Beng and Ah Lian

SMALL FAN excited with the colourful jellyfishes at the Sea Jelly Spectacular

Atoll Reef

Tai Shue Wan Entrance

We skip the Adventure Land as all the ride seems too scary for the kids, so we decided to just take the escalator down. This is the steepest escalotor ride.

View from the escalator

After atiring day at Ocean Park, we then took Bus 629 and head back to our apartment for a nice rest. Didn't thought we will go out at night, but we ended up taking the Star Ferry to Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade with some of our friends in Hong Kong. The night view was really nice and very peaceful there although it actually quite crowded and lots of people there. As it's a last minute decision, I did not bring my camera, so I took some pictures with my LGphone instead, the turn out was "as expected' not very clear...a real pity.

Night scene at Tsim Sha Tsui Promenade

Brought SMALL FAN & Baby FAN for a 5 day trip to Hong Kong. The kids simply love it, especially SMALL FAN, he kept asking us if he behave himself can he go to Hong Kong again? Here's an account of our trip.

Day 1

We took SIA Airbus 380 to Hong Kong. It's the first time Big FAN & I get to sit on airbus, it has an upper deck and a lower deck, as it's a new experience for us we decided to sit on the upper deck. Told SMALL FAN we are sitting on a Double-Decker plane. The plane was not much bigger then the normal SIA plane though, everything else in the economy class seems the same, service same, size of seat same although we do notice that the business class seats was much bigger and more comfortable. We took the 9.45am plane and reach Hong Kong Airport around 1 pm. Check in and out was a brisk for us as we only have one check-in luggage and one hand carry. We tried to get a bigger luggage and keep to the minimum no. of luggages so that we don't need to worry about counting our luggages. Big FAN can easily manage 2 luggages while I take care of the 2 kids. Felt that it's more managable this way.

At Changi Airport Terminal 3

Kids having some fun at the playground at Terminal 3 while waiting for our flight.

On Board Airbus 380

Once out of the plane, we went straight to purchase the Airport Express ticket and proceed to the train station to Hong Kong Central. The journey from the immigration counter to the train station was quite tedious though as we need to go up and down a few escalators. The journey from the airport to Hong Kong Central took us about 30 minutes and it was a nice and enjoyable ride as we get to seat down quite comfortably. We then took a taxi to our friend house at Robinson Road (at SOHO) where we will be staying there for 3 nights FOC...hi hi...

Robinson Tower, at Hong Kong Island (the one under construction) is where we stayed for 3 days.

Big FAN fell ill on that day so we all took an early night rest. The kids slept at 6pm....hi hi.... As for me, I spent the next 2 hours just browsing through the TV channels there, it was really really boring...

Day 2

The kids woke up bright and early, so we were all dressed up and out of the house by 8 plus. As we stay along the hill top, we need to take a series of escalotors down to get to the main central. It was quite a nice walk down and the kids have a great time taking escalators as well as looking at the many pups and restaurants and cafes along the way. We then took our first meal of the day at a cafe along the way call "Xiao Yu Tian". Big FAN & SMALL FAN ordered their toast which was nice and crispy while I decided to indulge in a bowl of hot "maggi noodles". It's actually maggi noodles with hotdog, luncheon meat, ham and egg with tomatoes and vegetables plus ketchup. It's really sinful but really really yummy....I'm still drooling pver it as I typed this post now.

After a hearty breakfast, we continue our way down the escalators and visited the wet market along the way.
SMALL FAN was really intrigue by the seafoods and was asking me about their names.

Journey down the long escalator

Xiao Yu Tian - where we have our breakfast.

Wet Market

SMALL FAN curious with all the various seafood displayed there.

We continue our journey downhill until we reach Hong Kong Central where we walked around the busy central and visited some of the street markets. Big FAN & I bought lots of shirt and pants for the 2 kids in a cut-labelled store...phew....Now we have to think of way to squeeze all these extra clothings into our "One Big Luggage".

SMALL FAN wanted to take photos with the tram

As well as the 2 policemen

Our shopping place (where we bought all the children's clothes)

After some shopping and walking around, we decided to went back to our apartment for a rest before going out to meet our friend at night. We decided to "ta bao" some of their famous Char Siew Rice for lunch at the apartment instead. The Char Siew tasted quite yummy although I felt that it was a little too thick and chunky so it's kinda tough to bite. Guess I still prefer the Singapore version.

Char Siew and Roast Pork Rice

Meet Uncle TY for dinner that night at Causeway Bay and do some window shopping there. After that, SMALL FAN wanted to try taking a Tram. So we hop on board one that brings us all the way back to Hong Kong Island where we then take a Taxi up to our apartment. The tram service was really cheap, cost us HK$2. It's a great and cool ride home...yeah!