T minus 2 days and counting

Wow, hard to believe that we are two days from coming home! It has been a whirlwind adventure to say the least and many of us are homesick for our family and familiar places and routine. We all slept in nicely today with Sydney wining the snoozer award. We ate our breakfast of Cheerios, bananas, instant coffee and OJ and learned that the milk we bought wasn't cow milk, but soy milk. Guess what Sara, it still tastes nasty though not as vile as I remember. The plan today is to take it easy and rest because we have big plans for tomorrow and Tuesday is a long travel day home.

We lounged around, read email, books, played games and stuff until everyone was each other's nerves and we needed to get out. We hit the metro and went one stop to Tsim Sha Tsui, the last station on Kowloon to check out the Chinese Stars Walk of Fame. This is along the promenade of the harbor with excellent views of Hong Kong island. We saw stars for Jackie Chan, Chow Yun Fat and of course the master, Bruce Lee. The boys took an "in action" photo with a big statue of Bruce Lee though it is hard to look like a Kung Fu master with a backpack on and a kid in your arms. LOL! We enjoyed the sunny weather though it was more humid today than it seemed the other day. This humidity is what we imagined Guangzhou and Hong Kong would be like - sticky.

We then walked down to the Star Ferry to take a boat across the harbor. Before the metro, and bridges spanning the harbor the Star Ferry was the only way across and they are icons of Hong Kong. We chose the shortest route in case Sydney's seasickness pops up. The good news is that it didn't! We enjoyed going across the harbor and seeing the ships coming and going including a cruise ship. We also saw the Stonecutter's bridge that Max, Julie and I watched a show about it being build on Discovery or History channel. Maybe we will see it closer tomorrow. We arrived on Hong Kong island and the terminal and area around it was jammed. Apparently Central terminal is a popular spot for the Filipino house maids to gather on their day off for a social event. Unfortunately for us, I remember that after we get off the ferry. We had planned on eating lunch on the island, but quickly changed our plans. It also seems it is a good time for some of them to solicit how shall we say it, extra business activities based on the way some of them were dressed. Not exactly a child friendly environment, but not the red light district either. We decided to hit the metro and find food closer to home. Sydney went into a funk because she wanted to eat at a Subway we saw but didn't get her way. Can you say attitude? She'll be a real treat in a few years.

On the way to the apartment Max and I were thrilled to see a Ferrari F430 go by and we had already saw a number of Porsches. Hong Kong has nice cars. :). We ate a late lunch at an Italian restaurant. It was my turn to change Emerson so I took him to the restroom where he again started wailing and crying. We worked through it and when we walked out there were two servers there anxious to see if everyone was OK. LOL! He puts on a heck of a show! We ate lunch and hit Starbucks for a Hong Kong coffee cup and then to the apartment. Three of the four kids needed naps and by the time it was all over, I think Max was the only one who didn't get any shut eye.

I hit the grocery store for bread and jelly to make the most of our leftovers as we are getting close to the end of the trip. We had peanut butter and blueberry (apparently a purple label doesn't mean grape in Hong Kong) sandwiches with pineapple chunks for desert and whatever other snack food we had left. Julie started packing our suitcases for Tuesday and I did dishes. We also told the kids about the plan for tomorrow and they were excited to hear we are going to Hong Kong Disneyland. We hung around the apartment until it was bedtime and then sacked out with princess and Space Ranger dreams.