Day two: hot in Hong Kong

Hello beloveds,
Lots to report today, highlights include an old Asian woman grabbing my breast, quick spew in a department store and stuffing our faces with four different types of shrimp!
After a nice long sleep, I woke up with a really sore chest, which hurts every time I so much as move my head. At first I'd convinced myself that I had a blood clot and was about to have a heart attack, when Brad gently reminded me it was far more likely that I'd just pulled a muscle whilst lifting my pack! Together with Brad’s sore heel (which we later found out was due to a massive shard of glass being wedged in his shoe), we felt quite in the wars.
After my initial blood clot/ heart attack panic, we headed to the harbour for a good old gander. It’s so amazingly pretty – more skyscrapers than you could ever imagine.
We walked the famous ‘avenue of stars' and saw lots of Kung Fu superstars handprints (including Bruce Lee, where Brad posed for an inordinate amount of time pulling various kung fu positions, much to the amusement of many locals. When he started making ‘high-YA’ noises I decided it was time to move on).
As suggested, we decided to go on a harbour cruise tonight which shows the famous light-laser show, but we got tied up eating buckets of shrimp/ prawns, so that will have to wait tomorrow!
I started to feel really sick and faint, so we sat down and got something to eat. I couldn’t hold on though and had to have a wee spew in the toilets of a department store. It was full as anything which was quite embarrassing, but when you’ve got to go, you’ve got to go! We decided to head back to our cupboard on account of me feeling a tad ill, but we got a bit lost. No drama though as we found our way back, but at this stage I wasn’t feeling a box of birds. When an old woman came up and grabbed my chest I could barely object! All I could do was push past – either that or throw up on her shoes! Weird and I still don’t know what she was doing. Perhaps she was a Chinese medicine witch doctor and knew I had a pulled muscle? Either that or she was like those service dogs who can sense when a heart attack is coming!
We had a wee snooze and woke up feeling like a new person, so we decided to head back to the streets of Tsim Sha Tsui (most densely populated area of the world and where our cupboard is located). We navigated our way through the subway system and took a tram ride up to the peak, which was AMAZING - 360 views of Hong Kong. The Peak is a tram which basically takes you to the highest point in Hong Kong (including the islands), and is located on Hong Kong island. We took heaps of photos so will upload and send them out tomorrow.
At the peak, we had a bite to eat at a place called Bubba Gump (could we resist Gems and Con?), which was obviously inspired by Forrest Gump as it was decked out top to toe in Forrest Gump memorabilia. I’ve only seen the movie once when I was little, and when Brad told me how Forrest donated 50 per cent of the profits from his shrimp boats to Bubba’s Mum I started crying. Call it jet lag, call it emo, either way it was a touching moment!
Brad had possibly a million shrimp/ prawns cooked four different ways with so many with different sauces, and I had a grilled mahi fish burger which was delish. I was saving up for the dessert though (couldn't decide between ice-cream sundae on a giant warm cookie, or 'that chocolate thing' which was a huge chocolate cake/ pudding served with ice-cream and sauce), but in the end I was too full! I'm gutted now as the dessert is world-famous!
Tonight (it's 8pm), we'll go for a stroll and explore. Nothing shuts until 12am so it's very much all systems go at night.
Hong Kong has really surprised us. Lots of tall people, and so good-looking! Everyone is so stylish and there are lots of Europeans living here. Did I mention the clothes stores? Each stop is more styley than the last. I'm not even going in to any as I've never seen so many cool clothes, and just don’t think I’d be able to wear anything I own ever again!
There’s a general feeling of safety here – much more relaxing than Bangkok. Although you’re still hassled for massages or a customer-made suit, people take no for an answer. Definitely not as cheap though, with prices being fairly similar to New Zealand.
Love to all and we miss you very much. Keep looking at the time and thinking about what you’re all doing at that moment, although we’re trying not to do this as it makes us a bit sad.
xxx