Today was our second day in Hong Kong. We had opted for a tour to Macau so had to meet in the showroom at 7:45 am. Yesterday we had to tender from the ship but today we are docked at the Cargo Ship Terminal so the only way in or out is on a shuttle or a ship tour. We were late docking because of the traffic into the terminal.
When we checked in for our tour, they gave us our passport because we needed it to travel to Macau. We then went to sit until time to leave the ship. We had been sitting there about 5 minutes and all of a sudden I realized I had left my room key in my room. Of course for those of you who have cruised, you know that I need that to get off the ship. I told someone working there what I had done and that i was going to get it. We were in the showroom at the front of the ship and my cabin was 3 floors up at the Aft end of the ship. I ran all the way there and all the way back. I was exhausted but I made it. Then we still had to wait a little longer. If I had known that, I wouldn't have run the whole way!
Once we got off the ship, we took a short bus ride to the ferry terminal. We had to go through immigration leaving Hong Kong. The ferry was nice with assigned seats and plenty of leg room (well maybe not for Terry because Pat and I put him in the middle). It took about an hour to get to Macau where we then had to go through immigration entering Macau. There was then a bus and a guide waiting on us.
We first visited the ruins of the 17th century St Paul's Cathedral and the Museum of Macau which had a vast collection of art and artifacts tracing Macau's history. Unfortunately we only had 15 minutes in the museum. It had 3 floors and I could have spent 1/2 day there. It looked pretty interesting.
It was then time for lunch. We were going to the restaurant at the top of Macau Sky Tower on the 60th floor. The meal was served buffet style and there were lots of things to choose from but the desserts were the best. We haven't had many good desserts on this trip so this was a nice treat. We had less than an hour for the lunch but that was long enough.
After lunch we drove through town and then went to the A Ma Temple which was erected in the 15th century by Chinese fishermen as a shrine to the goddess A Ma, for whom the city is named. It started raining while we were there so I went back to the bus early. It was pretty crowded there anyway and we didn't have enough time to do much else.
There are lots of big casinos there but we only drove by them and didn't get to stop and go in any. We were on a tight time schedule and had a 4:00 pm ferry to catch. This time we rode on a Turbo Jet Ferry which was supposed to be a little faster than the earlier one.
We had to go through immigration once more leaving Macau. When we got back to Hong Kong we had to go through immigration again entering Hong Kong.
We got back to the ship around 6:00 pm -- dinner time. We went straight to the dining room because after all we didn't want to miss a meal.
We called it an early night. After 2 days in Hong Kong we were pretty tired. When we were sailing out of Hong Kong we sailed right through the middle of the light show that we had gone to see the night before. We watched it from our back balconies and were able to see things we hadn't seen earlier.
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