We walked along the "boardwalk" where they have lots of the famous Asian actors and their handprints, Jackie Chan was one of the ones we recognized. Then we headed to the night market and walked around. There are people out until midnight and the streets were just packed with people.
This place was crazy! I could never enjoy living in a big city like this, there are people everywhere! Neon Chinese signs hanging everywhere, interesting sights and smells, people it was like nothing I had ever seen.Saturday was the last day of our trip. We enjoyed a nice buffet breakfast at the hotel and then headed to the Ferry to Hong Kong Island. It takes about 10 minutes to cross to the other side from Kowloon to Hong Kong Island. It’s only about 50 cents to cross and it’s fun to see the skyscrapers.
It was a very cloudy and rainy day but we still had fun. We took the tram to the top of Victoria Peak, from here you have a great view of the Hong Kong skyline. There are restaurants and shops at the top so we walked around for a bit. It’s very pretty and green up here, very nice. 
While we waited in line for the tram down Allden enjoyed running up and down the ramp and making the people smile. We took some nice pictures and had lunch then headed down. 
We walked through the Hong Kong Park, it was a nice getaway from the hubbub of the city. Allden enjoyed looking at the fish and turtles in the pond and the sound of the waterfall.
Then took the ferry back and headed out to the market for some more shopping. It started pouring but we ducked under a store overhang until it slowed down. 
We shopped and bartered a lot, the prices here are not always cheaper than the U.S. For example Brett asked the price of a camera the one that he liked was $200 in the U.S . and here they wanted $400 for it! So it’s not a good place to buy electronics. I’m a bargain shopper at home as it is, so I was hoping for some really good bargains here but there weren’t as many as I had hoped for. They always throw out a really high price and then we throw a low price and then they get out their calculator and we haggle the price until we either walk away or we settle. Brett got some ties, shirts and a belt and we got the girls a couple little Chinese outfits. Then we found a Pizza Hut, that sounded so good after seeing nothing but Chinese food but the line is out the door and down the street, so we passed on that one. We found a California Pizza kitchen with a huge line of people so we ordered some pizza to go. We enjoyed it in our hotel room with our own music and no crowds. 
I really hate all the crowds of people everywhere and would never enjoy living in a big city like this. We didn’t get our fill of shopping yet so we headed out again for a bit more shopping to end the night in Hong Kong. We really had an enjoyable trip and lots of memorable experiences.
It was a very cloudy and rainy day but we still had fun. We took the tram to the top of Victoria Peak, from here you have a great view of the Hong Kong skyline. There are restaurants and shops at the top so we walked around for a bit. It’s very pretty and green up here, very nice. While we waited in line for the tram down Allden enjoyed running up and down the ramp and making the people smile. We took some nice pictures and had lunch then headed down. We walked through the Hong Kong Park, it was a nice getaway from the hubbub of the city. Allden enjoyed looking at the fish and turtles in the pond and the sound of the waterfall.Then took the ferry back and headed out to the market for some more shopping. It started pouring but we ducked under a store overhang until it slowed down. We shopped and bartered a lot, the prices here are not always cheaper than the U.S. For example Brett asked the price of a camera the one that he liked was $200 in the U.S . and here they wanted $400 for it! So it’s not a good place to buy electronics. I’m a bargain shopper at home as it is, so I was hoping for some really good bargains here but there weren’t as many as I had hoped for. They always throw out a really high price and then we throw a low price and then they get out their calculator and we haggle the price until we either walk away or we settle. Brett got some ties, shirts and a belt and we got the girls a couple little Chinese outfits. Then we found a Pizza Hut, that sounded so good after seeing nothing but Chinese food but the line is out the door and down the street, so we passed on that one. We found a California Pizza kitchen with a huge line of people so we ordered some pizza to go. We enjoyed it in our hotel room with our own music and no crowds. I really hate all the crowds of people everywhere and would never enjoy living in a big city like this. We didn’t get our fill of shopping yet so we headed out again for a bit more shopping to end the night in Hong Kong. We really had an enjoyable trip and lots of memorable experiences. Sunday morning we headed to the airport for a very long long flight home. Luckily this time I had Brett here to help. We were excited to get home and see the girls, we did miss them but this trip would not have been too much fun for them, I’m sure they would have got a lot of attention just like Allden. I think the people must have thought it was good luck to touch him or something because hundreds of people must have touched him! We couldn’t hardly walk down the street without someone stopping to touch him or smile at him or ask how old he was. It was a fun trip!
We saw the old church and the fort and the old Portuguese archetechture. 
It was neat to see all this, Brett wanted to take me down to the new part of town it’s like the Las Vegas strip but I was so tired so we headed back to the hotel.
like the one in Italy, we saw the real one, but I guess it erupts at night and it’s pretty cool. There is a replica of the coliseum in Rome and a replica of the Forbidden City in China, 
it was neat to see and it was all overlooking the ocean. 
We walked through some of the shops where they have different architecture to look like different places around the world. 
We ate at the most interesting one called Africana. 
Brett really enjoys trying new foods. After lunch we checked out of the hotel and went to the port to take a boat to Hong Kong, the boat ride was a little over 1 hour. 
There were little monkeys running around everywhere and it was so very green! Allden liked the monkeys.
Then we tried some coconut water-the guy takes a whole coconut and chops it in half then pours all the juice into a little bag and you drink it. Then we went to Gurney Plaza for lunch. We ate at a nice little restaurant, it was very good and the waiters really liked Allden. The gurney Plaza is right on the coast, Sue told me when the Tsunami hit in 2006 all the cars that were parked in the basement of the parking garage were under water. 
After lunch we went to a big Budhist Temple, inside was a huge sleeping Budha and several other displays with Budha and statue’s etc. I don’t know much about the religion but it was neat to see their temple.
While we were standing outside one of the temples Allden suddenly became famous as one lady takes him out of my arms to take a picture. 
Then a crowd is gathered around and he is being passed from one Asian to the next with people snapping photos as fast as they can. He took it pretty well but he was starting to get quite worried so Sue rescued him and we left. I should start charging money to take a photo with Allden, I guess it’s because there are no blue eyed blonde haired cutie’s here. 
Then we took a driving tour around the city and saw the old Fort with cannon’s pointing out to sea, it looked like the old fort’s we had seen in England. Then she drove me through a section of town called little India. Here they sell all the Indian attire and spices and snacks, it was quite interesting. Sue is Indian so she explained to me a little about her culture. Malaysia has a good mix of many different cultures and religions here, many people are Muslim so the women are always fully covered, I would think it would be very hot! We picked up Brett and Jose after work and went to dinner together at a nice Italian restaurant. I’m not so great at trying all different kinds of food. Then we walked through the night market. This is where they sell all the “fakes” purses and watches and sunglasses even DVD’s that just came out to theatre. The police are really starting to crack down on the DVD guys in fact they came and arrested those guys and took their stuff away the very next night.
This is a picture of the jungle walk we went on at the hotel.
In the evening we went to a German restaurant and then went shopping at the market, Sue helped us barter for a few things and it was fun shopping I just wish we had more time.
The Towers are really beautiful and well lit up at night, so we walked around and enjoyed the night life. 
Everywhere in Asia has a lot of night life so we have been out late every night. We tried Persian food for dinner, it was pretty good. 
If we had more time we would have explored more and gone to the market here. 
You take an elevator to the top and walk around the observation deck. You get a very good view of the city and even better you can see the Petronas Towers. We enjoyed the views and then headed down the elevator. 
There were some guys playing musical instruments, Allden loves music and decided he wanted to get down and dance, soon Allden became the center of attention and the cameras were turned to him. He makes a lot of people smile and gets a lot of attention here. 
We headed back to the hotel to check out and head to the airport. 
This is the view from the top floor of our hotel....We took a taxi where the taxi driver told us a few more interesting facts about the country. Corn in a cup is a treat here!
They have a fruit here called Durian, there are signs at the hotel and airport that say no durian so I asked why. It’s a fruit that is very smelly and can stink up an area very quickly and smell for days. He said if someone brought durian into his taxi it would take 10 days for the smell to go away. I did smell it at the market and it is pretty bad. He also said they don’t send it to other country’s because it is only good for about 3 days and then it is bad. They also have palm trees everywhere he said they harvest the little fruits off them for the palm oil. There are many things that are made with palm oil. Anyways we arrived at the airport the low cost terminal to fly air asia. We had to wait in long lines and had to pay extra for our luggage. The long lines to check in and then passport control took forever and we thought we were going to miss our flight. Luckily our flight was delayed 30 minutes so they hadn’t even started boarding when we got to our gate. We took a 4 hour flight to Macau. 
and went for a scenic drive around Phuket, to explore the rest of the island. 
We went to several beautiful viewpoints, the most popular one was Phromthep Cape, 
up the steps from the viewpoint is a shrine to Brahma that is surrounded by thousands of wooden elephants of every size. 
We enjoyed the beautiful scenery and views of the ocean and the island before we had to head to the airport to catch our flight to Malaysia.
