Big Buddha and Hong Kong

View from our table at dinner.

Mike, Sheri, Katy and Macy at bottom of Big Buddha.

Beautiful trees all around area.

Cable ride. Can't see Betsy because she's on the floor!

I awake in the middle of the night completely realizing my son is fluent in Chinese as he was talking in his sleep in Mandarin!

After much deliberation, plans were to go to Big Buddha and back to Hong Kong for a nice dinner. Gathering to all get in cabs, and of course let off in different areas, we meet up and go to the landing to catch the cable cars up the mountain. Well...Nana was scared beyond belief and couldn't step past the ticket office. Curtis volunteers to take her back to the hotel and wait for us. After entering the cable car, I was without a doubt wishing I had been the volunteer to go with Nana! I quickly decided sitting on the floor of the car and not looking out was the only way I was going to make it up the mountain without passing out! The harrowing ride was worth it though, the Big Buddha was amazing and the view was spectacular.

We met back at the hotel with the rest of our group and headed to Hong Kong. We ended up at the Aqua Restaraunt to be escorted to our own room and informed to take our shoes off. We sat down under the table and had an amazing view and dinner for about 3 hours. Prior to being seated Mike created another quite quote...Curtis was explaining ShangHai meant on-sea and Mike says "what HongShree!" Quickly became the words of the evening. In our special dining room, we once again got to view the Symphony of Lights. A stroll back down the streets of Hong Kong and back to the subway to return to our hotel.

Hong Kong is very similar to NYC from what we saw. Loved it! We all wish we had another day to explore the city more, its vast size and difficulty to navigate about it with 7 people made it impossible to see more than a few sites.

Now sitting here completing our blog. What an amazing week! We are all so proud of Curtis and he was very proud to show us all he has learned and experienced while being here. Tomorrow will be hard to say good-bye, but much easier than the other times as it's only 8 short weeks and he will be home for good. China was a great experience for the Okies...but most of all spending the time with Curt was the best!!!