First day:
We rode on the 1 hour ferry (boat) to Macau. When I walked into the ferry terminal, there was Chinese (of course), English, and some really weird language! I was like, "what the heck?" There was this thing where it said "visitors" and it also said "visitantes" or something. Then my mom told me that people speak Cantonese and Portugese in Macau. Then I was like, "what the heck?" again. :P Ok. So we went to the hotel we were staying in so we could put down our luggage. Since we could only check in to our hotel room at 1:30, we went to eat lunch at the food court. Anyway.....after 1:30, we went to our hotel room. Our hotel room is sooooo cool! We stayed in the Venetian Hotel in the Bella Suites. There are over 3,000 suites there, I think. :O
After checking in, we went to the Ruins of St.Paul's Church. It is one of the most famous landmarks of Macau, and was a Portugese cathedral (church building) dedicated to St.Paul. I have many pictures! My dad is really interested in photography so whenever we go to trips, he takes like a gazillion pictures! At the Ruins of St.Paul's, there was also a mini museum of some ancient artifacts.
Night:
For dinner, we ate at a restaurant where they specialize in real Shark's Fin Soup! It was ok I guess, nothing really special. The vegetables was really good, but only because they probably added a bunch of salt. :P After dinner, we went back to the hotel and my brothers and I went to the "Qube" to play. It was so fun! In the "Qube," there are really big and fun slides, places to climb around (kind of like the Jungle except much bigger and more fun), a pool table, computers to go online, and a gaming place with a Wii, Play Station, etc. I have videos of the slides. There is a blue slide, rainbow colored slide (not scary), and a red HUGE slide. The red slide goes literally vertical almost the whole way down. It's soooooooo scary! It doesn't look scary at all in the video, but it really is! The blue one was scary the first few times, but then it gets really fun. It's the most fun slide for me. For the rainbow colored slide, you need a sack to slide down but I don't know why. My oldest brother just played pool the whole time except when he helped video tape stuff. It was also really hot because we had to wear long pants, long sleeved shirts, and socks so we don't get burns from climbing around. In the video, I look so weird in the clothes they gave me. Now, the video!
Second Day:
We ate breakfast at "Cafe Deco" (in the hotel). It was a breakfast buffet, so we didn't need to eat lunch. During our second day in Macau, we first went to this lighthouse place up in the hill. We had to walk up a bunch of stairs and it was so hot! Next to the lighthouse (which we were not allowed to go inside of) was an old church. Now it's kind of like a mini museum, but people just go in there to cool down because they put air conditioning inside. :P
Then we went to the Museum of Macau which talks about the history of Macau. There are three floors in the museum. On the first floor, they talked about the overall history of Macau and religion. The second floor talked about the customs and the living environment of people who lived in Macau a long time ago. There were some examples of houses of the poor and the wealthy.The third floor talked about photography and the arts of old Macau. There were a bunch of old and faded pictures and examples of some of the oldest cameras ever invented. There was a display of the oldest camera, and I have absolutely no idea how it's supposed to work! They didn't explain it either! It's just a wooden box like thing with a hole in it. Well, it had some wierd cutting inside, but I couldn't really see inside it very well. I thought the first floor was the most interesting, but sadly I didn't get to learn much because we went through the museum too quickly. :(
We were thinking of going to the Wine Tasting/Factory place, but that's when I started getting sick. Well, I didn't throw up or anything. I was just feeling kind of dizzy, so we decided not to go. We went to eat dinner at "Fernando," a Portugese restaurant. We ordered salad, red bean pork, grilled fish, veal that tasted a lot like pork, and roasted suckling pig. That pork's skin was so hard, I couldn't even bite it! It was supposed to be crunchy though. The red bean pork was like those Mexican beans. The restaurant is also next to a beach so we were going to play there, but we decided not to for some weird reason. We went back to the hotel to get our luggage back and we rode on the same ferry back to Hong Kong.
So that was my trip to Macau! I didn't really like it. All I liked was the hotel and the "Qube." I'm still at home and my brothers, mom, grandma, and Byron still hasn't come back from lunch yet. I think barely any time passed by yet, but it just feels like it has been a long time already because I'm so bored. :( I'm going to put the pictures and videos in later because I've waited for a long time and they still aren't loading!
1 comment:
wow... interesting!! sounds like you had fun at the hotel!! and i thnk alot of time has passed because that thing/paragraph is soooo long!! how can you write that much?? it's scary!!!!!!!
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