HKG035: Macau (or Macao)

bug sliding at qube...that's her in the middle

bug giving me "dramatic" face at the end of the slide

stopped for a snack at the venetian. the food court here was interesting in that all restaurants served food and beverages on real plates and cups...i saw very few disposable items.

pic with the fake venice canals at the venitian

click the pic to see the funny sign inside that store with the green lighting

click the picture to see what we found to be a funny name for this pho place

within five minutes of being in macau, my hong kong drop phone started buzzing with spam text

quinn enjoyed climbing through this rope course at qube

quinn especially enjoyed this ball pit at qube...this was in a "baby" section labeled as being for quiblings...younger siblings of the big kids on the big slides and climbers. i thought the terminology was cute!

peyton f., this picture is especially for you...livie took this for you...she thought you might like to see this "cranky the crane" on the construction site next to our apartment building.

some of our groceries were frozen and came packed with dry ice. josh gave the kids a little dry ice show.

josh unpacking some of our delivered groceries

josh unpacking more of our delivered groceries

today started out nice and slow with a couple cups of coffee, an easy breakfast, and groceries delivered to the house. there is a wellcome half a block from our new apartment, but because this area is so hilly/steep, the grocery store is two stories...this makes it nearly impossible to navigate with the kids (q in the stroller). i have been doing our grocery shopping at night the nights that josh is here. this works out okay, but the grocery store also provides delivery and online shopping, so i gave that a try. it was quite fun. i scheduled delivery for this evening, but our stuff showed up before 11 this morning. that worked out okay today, but could have been disastrous...we had intended to be on our way to macau before 11, but it just so happened we didn't get out on time. we will try the delivery thing again and make sure that we have no big plans on the day we expect the delivery to be made.

we headed out for macau around noon. the journey was a little longer than we expected...we were on a high-speed ferry, but the trip was still about an hour (we mistakenly thought it would be about 30 minutes). when you get to the pier in macau, there are all sorts of hotel shuttles you can ride for free...we hopped on the shuttle for the venetian, and this turned out to be a great idea. there was a ton to look at there...we spent a lot of time just wandering and getting a snack. we decided to head out after an hour or so thinking we would just head back to hong kong, but on our way out, we passed by a kids' play area called qube. the kids haven't had a whole lot of fun this week b/c there's just been too much to do with setting up the new place, so we decided to take them into the play area. they had an absolute ball, and we're glad we did that. after playing for a while, it was time for dinner, so we grabbed some pizza/paninis, and then headed back to hong kong.

it was an exciting and tiring day. we are happy to have active visas and to be ready to take the next step of getting our IDs.