Today we were surprised that we BOTH slept until 630!! Once we were up we went right away for our daily hike. Each day we do the full loop and its about 4 km. It was really cloudy so the hike seemed a lot easier than usual. Just as we were decending the hill it started pouring rain and by the time we got back we were soaked! The rain here is like a warm shower, so we weren't cold at all (until we stepped into our very air conditioned apartment).
Once we showered we headed back to...you guessed it...cuppa coffee. We were very disappointed that there was no Internet there today. We couldn't check our email or do our daily Skype with the kids. :(
After breakfast we decided to check out the Macau Tower. We had to do a bus transfer, but it was a piece of cake! Once we got there we went up to the observation deck on the 58th floor. It was a pretty spectacular view of Macau, Taipa, and China!! Certain parts of the observation deck were glass bottomed and several tourists were too scared to stand on there and look down 700ish feet. We then headed up to the 61st floor and watched some daredevils bungy jump!!! This jump is apparently in the Guinness World Record book as the highest in the world!! We've both agreed that we want to try and do the jump in the next 2 years (maybe when Lynn and Dan come in January?? :-)
We had lunch at the tower as the lower level is like a shopping mall with retail and food court. They had a soup/pasta bar similar to Mongoli Grill back home. We picked our ingredients and they cooked it up. I selected a miso soup with egg noodles, baby bok choy and pork balls. Amanda ordered fusilli with fresh tomatoes and tomato sauce. After we got our food, the lovely cook directed us to this huge tray of toppings and sauces. It was a dream come true. I wanted to spice up my soup so she started dumping all these pastes and sauces in herself. She encouraged Amanda (no English) to add parmesan cheese and some mystery topping. Amanda was hesitant to put in on her pasta so she took a little and tasted it and said "garlic". The cook then repeated garlic a few times and then gave Amanda the thumbs up. She then told us how to say garlic in Cantonese, which is pronounced "chen yu". She was a blast.
The food was excellent as always and cheap, especially for a major tourist attraction like Macau Tower. She definitely spiced up my soup as my lips were burning, I was sweating and I had to remove my hat. I'll refer to the soup as "lip remover" and will add my own spices next time.
After lunch we went out to watch a couple more bungy jumpers then headed to the movie Salt. There is a modern theatre here and it was only $6 CAD each. What a deal. We also had to select our seats just like if we went to an Oilers game. It's a pretty cool system they have.
As we were waiting for the movie to start Amanda got into trouble for sitting with her feet on a sofa.
We are now tied in the "Who can get in trouble the most by scary Chinese in uniforms" contest.
The movie was great!! It had Chinese subtitles, but we barely noticed. There was no popcorn so I enjoyed some UCC (milk coffee) and I was a big fan! Next time we will have to bring microwave popcorn, because a movie is not the same without popcorn....Amanda says right Val? ;-)
During the movie a man in front of us kept answering his phone. Each time he would duck behind the seat in front of him (where he presumably thought nobody could hear him) and he would LOUDLY yell, "HELLO!" good times.
We took our first cab ride home today (only because we mistakenly tried to get on a bus back to Taipa and all the people on the bus and the bus driver told us to get off). Apparently that bus wasn't going to Taipa at all??? At any rate, we took a cab back and it cost us about $5.00 (a bus would have been $1.00).
After a riveting game of Scrabble we wandered around and found a Thai restaurant called Siam. I had some spicy minced beef that he wrapped in lettuce and Amanda had Thai noodles with veggies. We also sampled some Thai beer called Singha. It was good!!
Tonight seems quite a bit cooler, but still 28 degrees. As I type this, we believe a spider just jumped out of Amanda's hair and hopped across our table in the restaurant!!!!! GROSS. We are just gonna head back and finish watching Invictus, which started last night.
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