Sam was asked why she didn't live in Hong Kong and commute to Guangzhou and we could see why when we got there. Compared to the dirty Chinese places, HK is quite clean. As demonstrated by the fact that once you enter HK on the train, you can't use the toilet as it will make the place dirty! They want to stop the kids pissing in the queues at Disney then!
We took the train at 9:50 after figuring out the train station and surviving the journey. More immigration and passport stamps and then negotiated lunch and the subway system. People were nice and helped us find our way. The hotel weren't ready for us so we made them give us a room that was ready and kicked up a fuss. Signs and roads and buses etc reminded us of home, probably after 100 years of ownership of HK! We ended up getting to Disney at about 3pm.
Apart from a few little things it was still Disney! Jenni was happy and it was a nice atmosphere. There was only 1 ride of any speed and note – space mountain and even that was a bit lame compared to some of the others we'd been on. There was a lack of characters knocking about, but other than that we had a good time on the many other rides and attractions around the place. Made us feel a bit happier. The parade was good, sprayed water on everybody and the fireworks at the end were nice too. Shame about some people pushing in and letting their kids wee themselves in the queues... Weird.
We took a train to HK island and saw the lights around the harbour area, but we were too knackered to traipse around more to find a restaurant, so we ate quickly and headed back to the hotel.
After a good sleep we took our stuff and headed to Noah's Ark, via shuttle buses and so on – we had to ask a few people and they helped us nicely. It looked so nice from the outside, a great big replica of Noah's Ark and we looked forward to going in. I don't think our attitude was aided by the crap they served for lunch. Noodles with pork or duck that was riddled with bones and didn't taste too good. Onwards to the brainwashing, I mean attractions within. Education centre was weird with preachy messages and most of it was in Chinese. We waited to go into the Ark Expo and once in there found out that Noah worked for over 100 years to build the Ark (about 5000 years ago) and that god destroyed the rest of mankind with a great flood because they were violent. Get the picture, communist brainwashing in action! All in all it was way too godly for us and pushing messages at us. It was good for chinese kids, perhaps but not for us. We couldn't get out of the expo and the place quick enough!
We just headed for the station and got the next train out at about 5pm. Home, pizza and sleep!
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