First Day in Hong Kong

The night before arriving in Hong Kong my friends and I watched Mulan to get us excited.  That morning we left the ship and took the subway to the cable cars that would take us to the island Lantau where there is a giant Buddha statue 33 meters high and it is on top of a hill so we walked up the millions of steps and walked around and took lots of pictures with the giant Buddha.  We also went to the Buddhist monastery and then took a walk on the wisdom path.  At the wisdom path there were giant half tree trunks set up in the shape of a figure eight with Chinese characters on them.  There weren’t a lot of people there and with the mountains in the background and the cool breeze blowing it was very nice to just sit and relax for once.  We left Lantau at 6 pm and went to see the light show.  The light show was like Christmas at home.  By that I mean it was like one of the houses that have bunches of lights that are programmed to a song.  The only difference was that this was a whole city.  Afterwards we walked along Star Avenue where we found Jackie Chan’s handprints and a statue of Bruce Lee.  Then we went in search of dinner.  We found a nice little dinner type Chinese restaurant down in the basement of a building.  It was really good; I had some sort of pork dish and rice.  One of the waiters kept trying to help Jen hold her chopsticks correctly because she can’t eat with them very well but she has fun trying.  They finally just brought her a fork but she refused to use it for a while because she wanted to use the chop sticks.  We were going to take the subway back to the ship but we just ended up walking through the giant subway station tunnels underground.