I woke up this morning at 3am and finally again at 6:50am. During my 3am wake up, I strategized how to make the bed more comfortable. The bed is like sleeping on a board. I will ask for 5 extra blankets to be put under the sheets. I also thought about asking for 20 towels, this of course was 3am…

So on our way out, I was completely prepared to put up a big huff about how hard our bed was and how unbearable it was going to be for 13 more days. I found the same guy that had checked us in and got us our new room. I said “Our bed is hard”, he says “One Moment, please, I will call housekeeping.” So I think to myself that we are going to have to move rooms again for the third time, which would certainly set a record for rooms switched in one trip. He comes back and says, “ Housekeeping has to move ‘The American’ from another room, but it will be there by this afternoon,” I picture they are going to put a big fat white guy on our bed…what a sight that would be.

We leave and head to the pineapple bun place that Nathan showed us and wait patiently for the pineapple buns to be ready; and in broken Chinese I ordered 2 pineapple buns with butter and 2 milk teas! I was quite proud.

We begin our day of walking. We venture down Nathan Rd to the Star Ferry, along the way we stop in shops and find our first Pacific Coffee Company for some internet. We also stop in a few city parks and aviary. After chatting with mom and others and emailing, we get to the Ferry. We take the Ferry to Central. Then from Central terminal we wandered up and down through Central. We go to the Zoological and Botanical Garden, which has mostly monkeys and lemurs. Then we walk to the Peak Tram station.

I was impressed with the resources and effort put into having and maintaining the parks and rest areas in the city. Each place we visited had maintenance people working either cleaning or pruning. It is interesting how in a city where everyone is fast paced and stressed that they put work into parks and yet do people really use them? I like green space within a city, it is quite the oasis.

At the Peak, we go to Mom and Dad’s last Hong Kong date spot before Mom left for Canada. We take pictures galore and walk the scenic walk. We have Peking duck pizza and spinach and ricotta ravioli, this cost 10x what our pineapple buns did. We go to the Sky Terrace and wait for the night time light show, which turns out to be less spectacular than I remember.

We make our way from Central to Tsim Sha Tsui to find Granville Street, we made success at the Bossini outlet. And walk to Jordan station and head back to our hotel area.

Near the hotel, Ed has a huge hotpot meal to himself and we each have a strawberry lactic fleecy.

Now I am beat, but thoroughly enjoying ‘The American’!!!!!