A couple of weeks ago, the Galaxy Resort (pictured above at the top of the blog) opened up after years of construction and roadblocks. Prior to opening, the website listed the food court as having a New York Fries! You can't fathom the excitement and energy making its way through the expat community here in Macau. This was unbelievable news and we quickly had to make a trip to the new resort for some poutine! One evening we headed to the Galaxy (Un Ho) and Amanda, Kylisha, Carly and Kelly dipped into the poutine fairly quickly. Erin opted for some green curry (since she misses it so much) and I went with some Pho and spring rolls. I figure I have the rest of my life in North America to eat french fries! Kaidyn devoured the usual......some McDonalds! There is also a Subway opening up soon on our island! Gill announced that the sign is up, so it shouldn't be long before it opens!
Last weekend we headed to Zhuhai with the Hildefranklins to experience our first Chinese waterpark. I didn't even know there was one until earlier in the week, so I didn't know what to expect. I checked out the website earlier in the week and it looked pretty sweet, but pictures can be deceiving. We arrived at the park at around 11 AM and it was a scorcher already! We proceeded to get the lay of the land and search for some lounge chairs, but totally weird, there were only around 15 lounge chairs all together in the shade! Not very typical of a waterpark. Anyways we snagged 5 of them and hit the water as fast as we could.
The park itself was actually very nice. It consisted of a wavepool, lazy river and numerous slides that did not open when the park opened, because that would just make too much sense! The slides in fact opened a couple hours after we got there.
We spent much of the afternoon hitting the wave pool and the lazy river in the blistering heat. Kaidyn was not tall enough to ride any of the slides so that was a bummer, but he still had a blast. All of the girls hit the one slide that you rode down on a double tube. Amanda and Kirsten said they used some choice words on the way down as it was apparently quite the adventure down! Poor Dane....he attempted to hit the slide and was denied by the slide attendant...."Sir, can not slide...too big". Dane was heartbroken and it would have been fine if he was a behemoth, but he is average size and apparently the slide limit is 70 kg or around 155 lbs! Too funny.
If you were to go to a waterpark or beach back home, you would see swarms of girls in bikinis flaunting their assets, but China is definitely different. Most of the females were wearing one piece suits or else something that resembled a short tank top with a skirt bottom. I guess they are too afraid of the sun! Also the men wore either speedos or really tight shorts. There were also some young boys in briefs and smaller kids had absolutely nothing on!
I almost forgot......Nearing the end of our day, really loud Eurotrash dance music started blaring out of the speakers. It was so loud you could barely hear the person next to you! The staff started throwing masks and plastic bowls into the wave pool and us foreigners had no idea what the heck was going on. Some dude started barking orders in mandarin to the crowd and all chaos broke loose...people wearing masks, water being thrown in the air with the bowls and huge fountains of water shooting up into the air from spouts in the deck! Here's what we saw....
After 10 months here, we finally had to make a visit to the doctor. Kaidyn had a cold for about 2 weeks with a cough that just wouldn't go away. We thought that was enough and I took him to the Hope Clinic this morning. The Hope Clinic is a medical clinic with western doctors. The 2 of us arrived there and it was a breath of fresh air.....absolutely no one waiting ahead of us. I hate the clinics back home where you're crammed into the waiting room and forced to wait for what seems like forever. Our doctor was a girl from Ohio that had just come here a couple months ago. She was fantastic and we were out of there in 20 minutes. She prescribed the meds and we got them right there! For the consult, antibiotics and some cough syrup, it cost me 320 MOP which is $40 CAD. In the end she figured he had a bacterial thingy going on, so hopefully he comes around quickly, plus he loves the taste of his meds! Let's hope we stay healthy and not have to visit the doctor for anything serious!
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