Hong Kong, Day Six

Finley was back to her old tricks again this morning, she woke up before 6 am and played with her animals for a bit. We had an early breakfast and headed over to Hong Kong Island on the Star Ferry. Our goal was to take the Mid Level Escalators. When we arrived, the escalators were going down, which meant we had to walk up several flights of stairs. After a bit, they reversed the direction, it was much easier taking the escalators up and the stairs down, it is how it should be all the time. We took the Star Ferry back to our hotel and grabbed some lunch along the way.

In the afternoon, we headed out to New Territories to see the Temple of 10,000 Buddhas. There were 430 steps to the temple, it sure was a day for climbing. The temple was amazing. We climbed to the top of the bell tower pagoda and went inside to see all the Buddhas. Finley liked all the animal statues the best. We headed back down the steps to the train to get back to the hotel in time for dinner.

We had early reservations at Nobu so we could be certain to see the light show outside with the music. Finley was not a happy camper at dinner and didn’t want to try much at all. She had some shrimp, edamame and rice. She turned up her nose at lamb and Kobe beef. I know she loves lamb, so I am not sure what was going on there. And she needs to learn to like Kobe beef, because it is amazing.

After dinner we headed out to the Avenue of Stars to watch the show. Hong Kong needs to take some tips from Disney to improve their sound system a bit. Finley really enjoyed the show. We headed over to take the colorful ferry (Finley had been admiring it all week) to Wang Chai. When we got to Wang Chai we had a single purpose: to ride the double decker tram one last time. We took the tram all the way to central to take the Star Ferry back to the hotel. We looked for the model train, bus and tram shop all throughout the terminal, but couldn’t find it. Finley was disappointed and so were we. I took a picture of the information, so hopefully we can order the models online.

Good night and good bye to Hong Kong!