Hong Kong Kid Tour

I don't know about you guys but when I think of Hong Kong, I think of urban, globalized, commercial sophistication. A lot of top businesses are concentrated around here, people in general dress pretty nice, the shopping is decent, and there is supposedly a nightlife worth checking out.

Well, I don't have any stories about that side of Hong Kong because I totally did not do that here. If I were to summarize my trip in HK, I went to preschool, visited Disneyland, and played in the best kid's funhouse/obstacle course I have ever seen in a country club. Between my two cousins, there are four kids ages 7, 4, 3, and 1. We went to Hong Kong's wonderful world of Disneyland yesterday which is much smaller than the ones in the U.S. but since I hadn't been to Disneyworld since I was 10, I didn't notice much of a difference. We went on Space Mountain, It's a Small World (as cute as it was, my Women's Studies eyes made me look at the displays in a different light), a Buzz Lightyear shooting game-ride, and Donald Duck's 4-D screening. We even got to see the daily Parade where the announcements and some of the songs were sung in Cantonese but still entertaining. Today I went to a country club my cousin Vivian belongs to, which has the sickest obstacle course for kids. Much like Playspace, except a hundred times better! There were so many ropes, ladders, and cushions to climb, tunnels to crawl through, firepoles to swing down, and rotating tables to jump over. The best part were a series of huge slides, one of them requiring a potato sack and had bumps along the way. Another one had a vertical drop before ending on a slide. I don't know how little kids just went down this slide without any hesitation but my cousin-in-law Will had to push me down because I was too scared at first. It's like a 5-10 foot free fall before you land on a slide... so scary but fun! We ended the day going to the Wan Chai Market for some shopping, had some good eats and bought a Halloween costume which are so much cheaper here and they sell them year round and some leggings.

I will be leaving Hong Kong to go back to Shanghai soon and even though it was a short trip, I enjoyed seeing my cousins again and their young but growing families. If anything, I got to see what I get to look forward to in the future perhaps. No nightlife stuff this time but going down the scariest slide of my life was definitely worth it :)

Sorry no pictures this time, my computer is not reading my camera at the moment. And I will try and break the great firewall of China when I get back but it is likely I may not get to update this again when I return to the States which will actually be in less than a few weeks, yikes!