The last two days have been very busy!! Yesterday Amanda went on a tour of Macau with her school. They started with a trip to Coloane and some treats and coffee at Lord Stow's bakery. Then they were taken on a walk through the village of Coloane. Many people live in small homes that are also stores. The front of their houses which face the streets have merchandise, but if you look a little further in you can see their sofas and kitchens. They headed back onto the bus and toured the beaches. Then they headed to the A-Ma Temple. The temple is high up on a hill and you have to take a shuttle bus to reach it. They were actually filming a kung fu movie at the temple!! It was very cool. Apparently if you go to the temple any afternoon you can buy a bird (or even a turtle) and release it for good luck and prosperity.
Once they had seen the temple they headed to Senado Square and one of the veteran teachers showed the newbies the best little street vendor to go to for dumplings and green onion cakes. They were apparently DELICIOUS!! For lunch they went to an Italian restaurant in Macau. It is owned by a parent from the school and they treated the staff to all you could drink Sangria, appetizers, pizza, pasta, and dessert...so it was a feast!! What a wonderful welcoming!!
While Amanda was galavanting around town, I was terribly busy working hard. I didn't do anything until Muneer picked me up just before 11 am to pick up Pat and the kids.
We picked them up at the Taipa ferry terminal and headed to our place. They were quite excited to see their new home and bedrooms and they were quite pleased with the place. The kids unpacked some of their belongings. The sofa, wardrobes and our bed arrived this afternoon as well. We are definitely pleased with the black leather sectional and our king size bed. It surely feels like more of a home now. After we unpacked some stuff, we headed down to the pool so we could swim.....the pool was a little cooler today due to the rain last night, but it was definitely refreshing. Kylisha picked a swim cap like Amanda's pink panda and Kaidyn picked an orange one. Maybe he is the only normal one in our fam!
After Amanda got home and smothered the children with hugs we had dinner (Chinese egg noodle stir fry), and then we headed out on the town to show the kids some sights (Pat was passed out and missed out). We went to Flower City Park (now known as Myrtle Park) to feed the fish and turtles some food we bought at a local pet store. Needless to say, Kaid LOVED this and has asked to go back every 20 minutes or so since he's arrived!
We headed next to Old Taipa and took the kids to Haagen Daz. Kylisha had a Belgium Chocolate cone and Kaid tried a Mango Passion Fruit. It's pretty cool there, because you order and sit down. Then they will bring you water like you are in a regular restaurant. When your order is ready they bring it to the table (and if you order a cone, they bring it on a plate).
The kids were fading fast at this point, so we headed back to the apartment. On our way back we stopped at the bedding shop to buy Kaid a mattress topper. They didn't have a queen sized topper, so we ordered one for pick up the next day. The shop owner tried to short change Amanda 200 MOP...but thankfully she noticed. The owner was apologetic, but Amanda still thinks he's shady.
That night Pat came creeping into our room at 4:30am scared poopless because she thought she heard someone trying to break into our apartment. Amanda went to the rescue (tentatively), and they soon discovered that the noise Pat heard was coming from Kylisha's bedroom. She was Skyping with her friend back home! Hahaha!
Once we were up we took Kaid and Pat on our Taipa Grande hike. Kaid made it about half way before I turned around and brought him back. But, Pat and Amanda did the whole loop and Pat really enjoyed the views. After the hike we took the kids and Pat to Cuppa Coffee so they could see where we've been spending all our time during the last two weeks (and so they could try an egg tart). Kylisha (as was expected) LOVED the tarts!! We headed back to Turtle Park so Pat could see the sights there, and then we bought some more bus passes so that we could head into Macau.
We headed to a department store called New Yaohan in Macau. It has 8 floors of clothes, cosmetics, bedding, and appliances. We bought Kaid some black shoes for his uniform and then Pat purchased some small appliances for us as a house warming. She bought us a coffee maker, a fan, a convection oven, a crock pot, and a rice maker. We chose to have them delivered since it would have likely been a gong show to carry all our new treasures back on a super packed bus!!
For lunch we headed up to the 8th floor to the food court. Right away Kaid said, "Everything here is yucky. I can't eat any of it." Pat concurred. There were about 6 food stations and everything was (appropriately) very Chinese. Pat and Kylisha saw some rice concoction with beef being prepared at one station and pointed at it. Perfect. I easily chose some rice dish with a mystery meat on top. I'm still not even sure what it was. It was kind of sweet, so it wasn't my fave. Amanda found some noodles that she wanted, but they had octopus pieces on top. The noodles looked great and it was filled with veggies, so she pointed to the creation to show that she wanted it, then grabbed a piece of paper, drew an octopus on it and put an X over it.
They understood!! Who knew that Pictionary skills would be so important over here??Kaid ended up eating steamed rice, but noticed that a little girl next to us had some noodles that looked delicious...he told us to ask the girl's dad what her noodles were called. If only it were that simple, Kaid...
A strange thing about some food courts over here...first you pick what you want, then you stand in line to pay, then you take your receipt back to the station you've chosen to cook for you. Then you watch on a big screen for your number to come up. This let's you know that your food is ready.
We headed back to the apartment and went for the swim. The locksmith came to change the locks and the realtor came to try and fix the toilet (for the third time this week)! Muneer also brought the bed for the spare room.
For dinner we made spaghetti, a salad, corn, and fried potatoes...Kaid pretty much fell asleep at the dinner table at 6:30pm and slept until 4am. Kylisha wasn't far behind...
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