Hongkong/Macau 5 Days 4 Nights Trip (Day 1)

Hooray!!! I just got back from our Hongkong/Macau 5 Days 4 Nights Trip on Saturday (7th Apr - 11 Apr 2009). It was a very good trip consider it being planned about 2-3 weeks prior to our departure. Mummy & daddy's definition of "Good" for the trip are: 1) Eagan enjoyed the trip, 2) 奶奶 enjoyed the trip, 3) Eagan didn't get cranky throughout the trip, 4) Eagan ate, slept, pooed well, 5) Nobody falls sick during the trip. Checked, checked, checked, checked, checked. Of course my folks are happy too.

About the Flight
My folks thought it'll be a problem to board the 640am flight (Jetstar) coz they were worried that i would be cranky. But luckily not coz it's a blessing in disguise that i still reuire my night feed at abt 330-4am every night, so it was just at the right time coz mummy woke me up at abt 345am, gave me milk, entertained me a bit and i was drained when we boarded the plan at abt 640am. Mummy gave me milk during the take off and i zzzzz.....immediately after. I woke up when the plan touched down HK and was 100% engergized!

And the coming back, we took the 3pm+ flight (Tiger Airways), i also slept throughout the journey.
And, when we touched down in Spore, take our luggages and head for dinner and reached home at abt 10pm, i was tired enough to sleep. Daddy & mummy initially wanted the 1130pm flight but it was fully booked, they thought it'll be good to let me sleep in the plane at that kinda hour, but luckily we didn't manage to get that flight coz if i were to sleep during that time and when the plane reached spore at abt 1am, i would be wide awake when we got home at abt 2am.

About the Hotel
Luckily mummy booked a hotel that is located very near the Prince Edward MTR (3mins walk). With all shopping bags, stroller, diaper bag, daddy's camera bag and a 12kg toddler, the last thing the folks want is to walk a 20-30mins back to the hotel after the whole day out.

About the Food
Ohhhhh.....mummy certainly doesn't remember the Hongkongers have such saltish taste bud. Or rather, she didn't bother about the food during her past trips to Hongkong. The porridge that mummy ordered for me was really tasty, but definitely too saltish, even for the adults! I tried their porridge twice from different restaurants, both were terribly saltish. I had rice for the rest of my trip and luckily, they were really yummy and not as saltish.

Bread - Hongkong has lotsa confectionary shops, basically all MTR has it, so mummy bought some for me as snacks in the afternoon.

About the $
Daddy said the exchange rate in Hongkong is no good, so have to change sufficient currency, else use credit card coz the rate is better.

Ok too much of those details, i guess it's always more interesting to see pictures rather than words. Here goes:

Day 1

Super happy and energized at about 5am.

Look at the clock behind to check on the time. But for the seek of a good holiday, it's ok to sacrifice my beauty sleep once in awhile.

Daddy needs his daily cuppa as always to kick off his (holi)day:-)

Left: Daddy pretending to fall asleep while waiting for the flight.
Right: Adults always say it's never gonna be the same going on holiday again ever since i come into their lives. But comm'on, besides all the worrying of the climate, food, lodging, space for my diapers and milk powder, etc etc. There's always this teeny weeny advantage of travelling with me. That is, we got to be the 1st to board on the flight. That's the importance of we kiddos! Hee...

This was the initial sitting arrangment. 1 by 1, side by side.

And as the flight took off, we reshuffled and had the 1 take 3 kinda sitting arrangement as offered by the nice and kind stewardess. Oh btw, mummy said i need to emphasize here that she was play pretend to sleep here. She didn't have the chance to really sleep, but she did doze off a little when the scenario changed after a not as nice and kind stewardess came and ask us to shift to another row coz that was the emergency escape passage way. That's when mummy had to carry me in her arm to sleep for the rest of the journey. But still, the journey was good coz i slept THROUGHOUT the trip.

Left: Hongkong, here we come!
Right: Anyone here knows lip reading? Can you see mummy mumbling her infamous phrase "Holiday is never gonna be the same again". Poor mummy, but you've to learn to accept the fact! Hiak hiak!

Seeing my happy expressions, mummy repeated her "Holiday is never gonna be the same again". But this time round, it's for the good cause:-)

Arriving in Hongkong, with my super duper heavy diaper.

Left: We had our lunch at 大家乐 in the airport. This might be a common dish amongst the Hongkongers, but my folks thought it's really yummy. Or maybe they were truly very hungry. Look closely and you can see me eyeing on the food in the background.
Right: Mummy says: "Yum yum..."

Left: Where? Where? Tell me where is the spiderman?
Right: Ha ha...now i call this "Elder Man" (Elmo + Spider Man).

Snap snap while mummy settle our hotel arrangement. And oh, another advantage of travelling with me. The nice and handsome hotel manager arranged for the biggest deluxe room for us when he saw me in tow. How nice huh.

Woo hoo...i love bath tubs. It's always nice to soak into a pool of bubbles, get a massage from my private masseur and have a warm milk feed. That's life and i love it!
(Btw, this trip was also meant specially for 奶奶 coz she's been working very hard to take so good care of me for the past 17 months. So mummy & daddy made sure as far as they could 奶奶 shall rest and enjoy the trip while daddy & mummy take charge of all my needs).

Left: Monkey see, monkey do.
Right: Oh mummy, stop acting cute. "无眼看!"

Buying ticket to go to Lantau Island (Da Yu Shan).

Reached Tung Chung station. Obviously these photos were not taken by mummy. Mummy extracted most of the nicer photos from daddy's album:p

Left: Our rare and few family photo. In the cable car, on our way to Lantau Island.
Right: And obviously, this not too bad photo was taken with mummy's dummy digital camera.

Some photos with 奶奶.

My folks, trying to act cute and serious at the same time. *Duh*

Some solo shots before we reached our destination.

Left: Why are you staring at me?
Right: Urrr.....hee...i'm sure mummy & daddy will not scold me for sticking out my tongue coz i've proof of them doing the same.

Left: Hmm...wondering who will be the hero to carry me up to meet the huge Buddha.
Right: Shop around before we conquer the flight of stairs.

Left: Do i look like a cute little monk?
Right: Mummy took the chance to take more photos with me coz she is usually the one to hold the camera and hence seldom the chance for the "Us" photos.

Left: Eeeeee...what's that smell? It's so much more stinko than my "Ah Hemmm"!
Right: Ahhhhh....it's the cow dung! 奶奶 is saying "Don't breathe. Hold your breath like me."