Okay, so I've decided that the best way to blog etc is just to do it in like a shorthand.. Partly because I can't be online for long, and partly because there is so much to write about!!
So....
5 -6 Aug.
Flew from AKL - HKG. 1 hours. Read flag on plane. Pasta for dinner, frittat for b'fast. Train from airport - station where we caught a free shuttle to the hotel. 130km/h. My bags are really really really heavy. 50kg +. I forgot my camera charger :( and my blue swimming togs.. Maybe Ben could bring them over :P Hotel room is small but comfortable! Checked in at 10am. Dad bought sum glasses for NZ $290 for frames, lenses, transition and all! To pick up 7 aug. Sight dseeing. Lunch - iced coffee and spare ribs Hong Kong style. delish.. Dad had fried rice and beer. Bought a new camera charger! Slow but good. Approx $25NZ. I am tired.
Trip to Big Budda at Ngong Ping on Lantau Island. Caughtt eh train. Complicated, NZ$3.10 each way, two connections. Very tired. Cable car to budda. NZ$20. 25mins each way. spectacular views and very scary because we are VERY high up. Light show at 8pm. Not spectacular. Hotel. Sleep.
PS - Mcdonalds sundaes are amazing here for only like NZ$1.20.
7 aug.
8am wake up breakfast at hotel - super yum. today is 32 degrees celcius plus. Hong Kong island via star ferry, tour of HKI. v. good. Cable car up mt victoria lovely weather! Clear blue skies. Typhoon the day before we arrived. bought I <3 HK t-shirt like NZ$5. Tour on bus again, (like in London). Dad went back to Kowloon in a hissy fit. I stayed for a further 3 hours on my own in the middle of hong kong! Mum would be proud!
Shopping! Dad got hard drive and a micro sd card for my phone for NZ$200 (not that cheap, but still pretty good). I bought perfume. my beloved d&g light blue. awesomely cheap NZ$60 for 100 mLs yus :D legit and all!
bought dad 2 cans of carlsberg nd a 800ml bottle of water for less than NZ$4! it was awesome lol.
in london now - went out for dinner last night. really yum, steak & creme brulee. Kim wears mum's perfume. making me home sick already!!!
more updates to come, and photos too. miss mum + Cam and others.
love u all.
PS comment cos that would be awesome! xx
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you should meet someone that wears my perfume :-P
ReplyDeletesounds like a crazy fun time, you seem to be enjoying the cheapies a lot! hehehe.
yeah...its great how everything u write comes with a price tag haha.
ReplyDeletebut sounds fun.
Im jealous.
I wish I was in london eating cream brulee
ReplyDeleteHey Kid,
ReplyDeleteSounds like your knackered (can't believe you have 50kgs of luggage)! Keep having fun, London is a brilliant city. Say hello to your Dad for me.
Love
Brendie
OMGOSH I love you guys!
ReplyDeleteDad says Hi Brendie, my luggage is heavy but I am strong. O'Briens never suffer from jet lag so I am doing okay.
Andy, you have too much fun in NY anyway. Stop wishing about other places, school starts soon.
Lol Raq, I think it's good to put price tags haha.. Makes people understand :p it wouldn't make much sense in HKD haha. London isn't so cheap so I might leave some of those off :p
And Jenni, I always miss you... I don't even know what perfume you wear lol! Everytime I hear a Lady Gaga song I think of you, does that count? I was walking through the middle of Hong Kong singing Paparazzi and thinking of you hahahah :D
Hey sweetie, lets see if i can sus out this technology,lol, all your friends out there will be laughing at this, dont want to kno about the hissy fit from dad haha, but like a good obrien/kiwi girl you sorted it! great you have heard from Brendie, did you love HK? I miss you so much already. Say hi to (all) the girls for me. Will get your blue bikini to Ben if you need me to let me kno. talk soon i hope, lotsaluv M,
ReplyDeletegreat comment mum well done :D
ReplyDeleteLoved HK, will take you back there sometime. It's so busy and bustling, just my thing. I found my way around really easily and I just really enjoy the atmosphere.
Off to paris tomorrow, will post after then