HK 2011: togetherness

Two days right before the June School Holiday started, we went to Hong Kong for a family trip. Well, not just 2+2, but 2+2+2 and another 2+1 ^^. We invited my parents and we tagged with SC's friend and his family. 


So why HK at the first place?

I was as little as HY when I stood with to them.

Hong Kong as one of the Chinese-dominated city didn't really attracted me much. Urbanized, high density, uniquely mix of culture and architecture, fast pace living, disorganized but dynamic in a scarce land, are what I know of about HK. The colonial history of HK does create some sense of familiarity to us. I mean, learning so much about HK since young through the TVB drama series, I like vibrant HK. However, I was hesitate to bring kids to the packed and hazed city. On the other hand, SC finds HK is an easy roaming place for family like us, convenient MTR, no language nor food barrier for us (as well as the kids); best of all, there are marvelous Ocean Park and Disneyland there welcoming us! SC kept telling me the yummy-licious of dim-sum, milk tea, roasted goose and what not. Well, he is a big fan of 蔡瀾 (Chua Lam), who is a food critic and very good in making food recommendations. He also tempted me that I can be shopping queen there and kids will be under his care. I reckon nothing can be too tough for a daddy who wanted to fulfill his daughter's request. Coincidentally, Fong, our good friends from Sg Petani, and his family was also eyeing a holiday trip to HK. [With Fong and family, we visited theme parks and a few rounds of shopping together, other times were on our own program of the day.]


So SC went ahead with flight and hotel booking. Then we invited my parents tagged along. We thought, within our capacity, it would be nice as I have not been traveling with them since graduated and financially independent from them. Well, at least it would be a good idea to have more cares on the kids while exploring the city. 

Mum's help to relieve the burden of long hour carrying Bomber from me.

Marry-Go-Round with popo in Ocean Park. 

It is a pity that we forgot to take picture with them.
We were overwhelmed with the activities.

The true is, the holiday had passed us by in a blink! We had few agenda for the trip: theme parks for the kids, food hunting for SC, Macau for my parents (special request) and perhaps, shopping for my self. We became part of the dynamic city for that few days, by experiencing extremely lots of walking, from the pram-unfriendly MTR stations to the dizzying array of malls to riding on the humble star ferry and tram to The Peak. Walking is the best travel mode, but walking in the crowds and street after street of places for few days were somehow stressful, not forgetting slung baby Bomber when she took a nap or two in Ocean Park and Disneyland under the scorching hot weather. As my papa was a bit weak in terms of walking (he relies on car very much back home in KL), there was usually 1 highlight of each day following by city discovery. So that he could returned to hotel for resting, if we continued our journey to shopping (Don't you think shopping is the best way to explore HK;p). Mum was tired too, but curious enough to join our exploratory till late night. We had some mother-daughter's chit-chatting along the way, she gave me a sense that, as their age is catching up, she sees it as a rare opportunity for them to join us traveling. [She was referring to my grandma who is now 90 years old and too weak to travel even she is desired coming to S'pore to visit me.]

It was heartening to know that they cherish the moments of holding hands of little Bomber, Marry-go-round with Jiejie and having 3 generations to sit down together and enjoy a nice Hong Kong style breakfast. I believe that they will miss the cheeky smiles of the little ones and the little ones will remember that, once upon a time, they went to Disneyland with gong gong and popo... I think even if consumptive walking, theme parks or shopping malls or food hunting were not their cups of tea, we created a chance of bonding for all.

All were tired, included me. Bomber slept tight in the carrier. 

There isn't much pictures to show the lovely moment of ours. SC was also occupied with navigation to search for food for direction, photography (anything but us) and Jiejie. Me? I was keeping the little Bomber and my mum and my dad full accompany! Ha~! I had been nice:). [No complaint heard thus far^^.] 


It was a exhausted but hearty trip.