What a boring title. Another relatively cruisey day by comparison.
I forgot to mention about the suitcase. That is literally two new suitcases we have purchased to take home gifts and shopping. Plus we have filled our suitcase (which left Australia only half full) and the kids' suitcase has had 2 1/2 packs of nappies removed from it.
Which gets me unusually onto the money topic. The trigger was remembering nappies. We had to buy a new pack, which, after scanning Wellcome's shelves (we went there to buy booze for Australia and some lollies for taking home, as well), led us to buy the local brand of whatever nappies with chinese writing and cow pictures on the bum. The reason is that huggies brand, was over $250 HKD! That is about $50 AUD. For a pack of 32 mid size nappies. To put into perspective, the same pack of nappies costs around $18 in Australia. If you get Aldi brand (Which are literally the best nappies on the market anyway), you pay $18 and get double the quantity.
Milk - like I said $3 a litre for Aussie UHT. So for a family that goes through, minimum, 1L a day, it isn't real cheap. Bread, $1.30 for a 1/3 of a loaf we'd get in Australia. The noodles (the add boiled water, seasoning, etc and soak for 3 minutes variety), are probably no cheaper than Australia. The brands we pay $1.30 for at Aspley Spice Mart are about the equivalent of that in HK. The variety is much the same too.
So whilst bottled water, alcohol of all varieties (except wine) and soft drink are cheap, as is eating out, with a minor amount of conservatism in selection - some basic staples aren't very cheap. Fruit and Veg seems to be rather expensive as well.
Anywho, I digress.
We went to the first place we went here for breakfast, again. Just because it kind of helped us out to realise that we weren't in the worst place on earth. Plus it is blinking cheap and the food is good. We ended up getting some nice noodle and pork soup (Jovia's was tender pork ribs and mine was pork and preserved vegetables), sandwiches for the kids, and iced tea, coffee (the coffee mentioned in the previous post that sent me skitzoid) and a frappe like thing of strawberry, garnished with pineapple pieces. Cost about $14 or $15 AU, which is great.
I don't think they'll want us back. Esther was crying constantly and whingeing and Sonali chucked a hooer screeching tantrum. I could have strangled her and shipped back the corpse duty free. Sometimes kids are just being kids and sometimes, they are being little poos, just to make your life miserable. She and Esther were in that mood yesterday.
We ended up wandering around the dragon centre for the hell of it. Plus Jovia wanted to find some shoes for Olivia.
Actually Jovia got her nails done. Not interesting for us blokes, but basically they bogged the existing nail, rather than glue acrylic onto it (meaning less chemicals for starters, plus it doesn't weaken the existing nail), and then had it painted nicely. Looks good, and took an hour. I used the time to take the kids to 7-11 and buy drinks and snacks, went to the ATM, the game parlour (they are gay here, sorry, 50 themed money trays are still gay money trays, whatever movie you put on it). Olivia chucked a spazzy in the toilet and distressed her sisters - you get the theme on that?
Actually, we went to Wellcome and picked up a bundle of booze up to our duty limit. I reckon we wouldn't have gotten it as cheap duty free, and since we were in HK, we got generally Asian varieties of booze, rather than bring in 4.5L of Johnny walker red, which no-one likes anyway.
The laptop battery is going to conk out, so I'll leave it at that. Will finish tuesday on what we ate, plus the computer arcade. And some photos of what we took.
More soon!
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