We arrived on Thirsday fairly late on, heading straight to Time Square for dinner. I've found out today that Time Square is the most expensive piece of retail estate in the world - for reasons I will come on to later.
Saturday we headed down to Hong Kong's greatest theme park Ocean Park. Us and hundreds of others looking to bang 30 quid over to the trust that owns it (I just found out it was established by the Jockey Club - more on them later). We headed straight for the aquarium to cool off and give John something to do:
I am a bit upset with the third photo - now just because it is over-exposed, but because the Japanese spider crabs do not like flash cameras and although there are plenty of warning signs around I still failed to notice and turn my flash off!
We were also lucky enough to get to see giant pandas in a recently established, Jockey Club sponsored attraction. When we entered the building the pandas were hiding in their boxes, possibly from the hordes of school children, but once Laura and John wandered off to look at the monkeyS they emerged. John and Laura did return, and John spent a period of time watching said panda chomping on bamboo .... although he devoted a proportion of his time to saying 'no' to other children and trying to enforce a monopoly (jus) over watching the pandas.
Having watched the pandas we decided it was time to go and get something to eat. It was at this moment disaster struck; Laura took John for a change, returning with John, a pram, and a pram wheel. The MacLaren had come to the end of the metaphorical road and it's wheel had fallen off. After a brief period involving the wheel, the pram, a concrete plinth, and my fist, the pram was judged well and truly knackered. We trotted on, the wheel falling off every hundred metres or so, and took in the rest of the sights.
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