Haere ra Hong Kong

Wednesday 25th June 2014

Blog post by the mother

Well our last day of packing up and moving on has arrived.  We did the final 're-pack' this morning (much to the kids relief), a last flurry of lolly shopping and then headed off to the downtown airport  check in the Hong Kong train station.  The kids are all well used to negotiating stairs, streets, escalators and elevators with their suitcases now.  They really are quite incredible.

 After checking in for our flight and offloading our luggage we went off on the Star Ferry over to Tsim Sha Tsui. This was a bit of a change from our original plan of going out to Lantau Island to see the Big Buddha but, as fate would have it, the cable car up to the monastery was closed for maintenance. At least we found out before we went all the way out there.
I love the Star Ferry - such a stately and sedate way to see Hong Kong. Worth every one of the 37 cents we paid for the trip.

 The rain clouds were looming over Tsim Sha Tsui but we did manage to walk along the Avenue of Stars and find Jackie Chan's handprint and also his statue.

 After our Star Ferry excursion it was back to our favourite Overseas Dragon for lunch and then we caught the Airport Express Train out to the airport.  Because we felt that we hadn't quite done Hong Kong shopping justice we decided to catch a local bus from the airport to a nearby outlet store mall,  The father scooped up a pair of new running shoes but that was pretty much all we had time for before we had to head back to the airport to go through security before boarding.  No worries about Mr 11's Doc Marten's this time - he got to keep them on! A few last minute Duty Free purchases and then through to the boarding gate for a slightly delayed departure.  New Zealand here we come!