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Saturday, August 9, 2008

Macau & Zhuhai Trip Day 1

Megan & Ken parked their car at our place and together we took a cab to the airport. While we were on our way, Sharlene sms us that they had already arrive the airport. Can see she is pretty excited about this trip. Cos before today, I had been receiving sms and updates from her. Finally we are leaving for Zhuhai (Pearl River in China, just across Macau)!

Shannen was too tired and took a 2 hours afternoon nap on the plane. Good thing is she didn't make any noise when the plane was taking off and landing to touch down. Straight after we cleared from the "custom", we hopped into the coaches which Yinning Jie (Elson's cousin) had arranged for us. In fact, she is like a tour guide for this trip. From travelling, shopping to meals, she was taking good care of us. The drivers drove us to a famous restaurant in Macau for our dinner and they waited for us on the coaches. After a full meal, the drivers dropped us at Ruins of St. Paul's. We took some pictures there and walked down the alley and do some shopping. We also stopped by to tried some of their local delicacies, steamed egg and steamed milk. Can tell you we all dun like the taste of it. Lolz... Anyway, it was a good try.

After that we hopped back to the coaches again and he drove us to visit Macau famous 妈祖 temple. Shannen was really good. I told her to pray outside the temple (cos is was closed for the day) and she did so and she also bowed like the Japanese outside the temple. After that we proceed to our last stop, The Venetian (Casino). You can never compare any one of these with Genting ones. This casino alone is about the size of the whole Genting. All of them insist that I should take a look at the casino. So I did. Wow..... that's all I can say. After that I went to look for Sils and the kids. We had some fries at McDonald (still inside The Venetian) while I also gave Shannen her last milk feed. We met up with Bil at the hall at 10.45pm and off we left for the custom.

We don't quite like the custom clearance part. The drivers dropped us at Macau custom and we had to carry everything to pass through the Macau clearance. After that, we had to walk through a tunnel (though it's a pretty short one) to finish our Zhuhai custom clearance. Once we were out from Zhuhai custom check point, we could many pairs of eyes looking at us. The drivers in Macau had told us to be careful of the kids who are known as thieves. We took a short cut from the shopping mall and reached their so-called taxi stand. We took and cab and finally reached our hotel. It's well-located. Soon after everyone had finished unpacked their luggage, they gathered at our room and we ordered dian xin to end part 1 of the day.
A little intro of us and how we are bring group up


-Elson with me and Shannen (He is the eldest @ home)
-Sharlene with Robin, Yong Liang & Peixuan (She is the 2nd, her youngest daughter, Shihui did not join us for this trip)
-Megan with Ken & Chloe (She is the 3rd)
-Yinning Jie (She is our cousin) with Mummy (her mom) and Mummy's Sister

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Shannen Draws Me

Shannen took about 3 minutes to draw this picture and I love it!