Lily Birthday
YESTERDAY:
- Jackie’s auntie Michelle showed us how to take the minibus to Chai Wan
- from there we got on an MTR to Tai Koo
- dropped by a McDonald’s so Jackie could have a $2 USD fish fillet sandwich
- ended up a few minutes late for lunch with grandma
- caught up with uncles, aunties, and cousins
- head to grandma’s to keep her company for a bit
- paid my respects to grandpa
- ran into Lucia, Alex, and Charlotte at the Muji
- head to Causeway Bay together to roam around
- ran into Uncle Johnson randomly a shoe store
- Jackie got an ice cream in Times Square from a shop next to the grocery store
- headed to a mall in Mong Kok for dinner
- got there a few minutes early
- AYCE beef hot pot
- Japanese curry was pretty tasty
- also they scallops were great
- headed back to Island line with Uncle Johnson
- took the minibus back to Jackie’s auntie’s place
- had a sync with Sara
- she got the Rivian internship!
- got to sleep before midnight
TODAY:
- morning shower
- got way too sweaty with the blinds open in the morning
- head to dim sum lunch in Causeway Bay
- Amy and my Dad came too!
- HK Jockey Club
- caught up with a few of Jackie’s cousins
- met her cousin’s son; had only met the daugher previously
- got a ride back to Admiralty
- head to Amy’s hotel in Mong Kok
- pretty nice!
- took a nap
- head out to M+ museum
- lots of construction going on
- figured out a much better path to get there through a mall
- pretty hot for a social
- cooled down around 6 pm
- took a taxi back to Auntie Loretta’s place
- birthday dinner party for Lily
- followed Lucia and her best friend Wendy to an arcade
- played a neat mini-game series
- head home
LEARNINGS:
- not too jetlagged
- darn cough is quite persistent though
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