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It was raining in the morning, and then drizzle as well. When it stopped, the sun started shining bright, and in a short while, there seemed to be no trace of any rain on the floor!
By the time we got out of our hotel at about 9am, the roads were like dry!
This morning, we decided to go to Lantau Island, to the Po Lin Monastry to eat vegetarian meal.

We took the MTR there. This time, there were some new lines around HK, and we went to this Austin station, which is a shorter route to change to the MTR that brings us to Tung Chung. Tung Chung is last stop in Lantau Island, and the place to go to Po Lin Monastry.
We were hoping to catch the newer cable car transport, but it was not in operation today, probably due to some maintenance. So with such luck, we had to resort to the traditional bus, which will drive around the mountains, and up towards the Monastry.
Of course, we bought the ticket for the vegetarian meal. 2 of us, we had 1 big bowl of soup, 4 different dishes, and another big pot of rice. Of course we never finish the rice lah, not crazy ok! :P

There seemed to be a lot of changes at Po Lin Monastry, and they are enhancing more parts of the place there. And with the cable car, there is a new place shopping place up there. On the whole, it is quite a nice place to pass your time doing nothing much there.

Resting is the key.
We left the place after that, walked around the shopping place at Tung Chung MTR station. It’s a place where it’s full of special outlets of different brands. There’s Coach, Burberry, Espirit, just to name a few.

Then took the train back to Jordan. Bought some stuff for my mother-in-law before going back to hotel to rest for a while. Think somehow our legs were tired quite easily, took lots of rest here and there before moving to next place. Hehehe
Symptoms of older age? :P

Back at the hotel, hitching onto the free wireless government internet. However, the reception for it is pretty poor, don’t get to have a smooth access most of the time, and it tends to lose connection quite often as well.
As long as it allows me to do some blogging, still ok lah.
Nowadays, I am used to typing my blog content in a text file first, so that it’s easier to cut-and-paste to do the entry. Hehehe

After Karinna took her nap, we went out for our dinner. Went to Mong Kok this time, and just popped into a traditional HK restaurant. Karinna wanted to eat roasted goose drumstick, so ordered one. I just had an ordinary double meat rice, which consists of roasted pork and chicken.

After that, it’s just strolling around the place before going back to hotel.
Weather is very hot, so staying in the hotel is not too bad an idea.

Tonight is the last night in HK. Tomorrow will be going back to Singapore, and life will be back to normal again.