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Monday, December 15, 2008
Hong Kong 2008 - Day 3
As I mentioned in a previous post, our plans for today were to visit the Hong Kong Immigration Office, where Meiyi would renew her Hong Kong citizenship. She would then separate from the three of us and find her grandmother, while we headed for Chek Lap Kok. We would reunite at Tung Chung MTR station, take the Ngong Ping cable car up to see the Buddha, then head for the harbour to catch the skyline by night. How hard could this possibly be?
We left the hotel on time, heading for the Hong Kong Immigration Office. This proceeded on schedule, and we left Meiyi at the office. The three of us decided to get some breakfast at another small coffee shop where we had noodles again. We then took a bus over to Hong Kong airport.
The aviation museum in Terminal 2 was small, but had quite a few interesting exhibits, including one on how jet engines work (suck-squeeze-bang-blow!). The highlight was the rooftop viewing gallery, though fog and the usage of the wrong runway dampened our spirits somewhat. Nevertheless, we did manage some good spotting.
Soon enough, it was time for us to leave. We headed for Tung Chung to wait for Meiyi. We waited for about 10 minutes. Then we waited for another 20 minutes. Then we waited for yet another half an hour.
At this stage we got a bit worried, but attempts to contact Meiyi and her grandmother failed, the farthest we got being Meiyi's Shenzhen aunt. We got worried, but what could we do but wait. We threw around the idea of having one of us go back to the hotel to look for her, but decided against it.
Eventually, after about 2 hours, Meiyi showed up. We were relieved, but now had to scrap our plans to visit Ngong Ping due to the late time. We thus headed back to Hong Kong island, reaching there early.
We packed KFC for dinner and headed for the harbour, reaching there ahead of schedule and getting a good place to watch the view. We also met up with Calvin's friend Karl. The laser show was quite spectacular, and we enjoyed it. Not something you can see at many cities around the world for sure, Hong Kong has a really unique skyline.
We didn't do much after that, being tired out after such a long day, so we headed back for the hotel to sleep and prepare for the next day.
Posted by Aaron