Today we woke up in Hong Kong. It was going to be awhile before the officials cleared the ship so we ate at Sabatini's for breakfast and then went back to the cabin to do a few things. We had to tender so we wanted to wait until some of the crowds had gone ashore. We finally went to the tender around 10:30 am. It was a 30 minute ride so we got ashore around 11:00. We had already decided that we would do the Big Bus Tour (Hop on Hop off). We tendered in to Pier 4 and the Big Bus Tour left from Pier 7 so we didn't have far to go. We hadn't been able to get much Hong Kong money and they took credit cards so that was good.
We got on the Big Bus and got good seats on the upper level. There weren't many stops on the route but we did get to see lots of pretty things. We finally got off on the stop where we could get the free sampan ride. We got them to take us to the Jumbo Floating Restaurant where we decided to eat lunch. We had no idea what anything was on the menu so we just told them what we wanted. It was all excellent but when the bill came it was $150 for the 4 of us. It turned out that I ordered the most expensive thing. Oh well.
After we ate, we needed to get back on the sampan boat to take us back to shore. It took us a couple of boat trips before we got back to shore and then we had to walk to get back to our starting point. We had a short wait for the Big Bus. It wasn't long until we were back to the starting point. It was time to head back to Pier 4 to check in for our night excursion.
Our night excursion left around 5:00 pm. We drove to the Walk of Stars and walked along looking at the handprints of their stars. The only one I recognized was Jackie Chan. After the guide gathered everyone back together we took a short walk to the restaurant -- Peking Gardens. They served us Peking Duck. It was the best meal that we have had that was served Chinese style on the Lazy Susan since had started our trip. After dinner we took another short walk to get a place to watch the nightly light show. We were on Kowloon side looking across the water and all the buildings lit up and put on a light show that was synchronized to music. It lasted 13 minutes. It was good but not as good as a light show we saw while riding the river boat down the Yangtze River.
We were then off to a night market. It was crowded with lots of people and junk. We didn't stay there long until we found our way back to the bus. We were so tired by then but it was a short bus trip back to the tender so we could get back on the ship. However once we got to the ship there was a tender there unloading the group ahead of us and it took them FOREVER to unload. I think it was close to 11:30 pm when we got back to our rooms. When we were coming in to the ship, a bunch of the crew was waiting for their turn to go ashore. I guess they partied the night away.
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