The next day we set out to SHOP, of course. But to get to the mall we wanted to hit, we had to take a ferry across Hong Kong Harbour. So we followed our leaders for the day to the subway station to buy an Octopus card, which we could use on pretty much all forms of public transportation. Then, we walked to the pier. Along the way, we were bombarded by Middle Eastern men trying to sell us "copy handbag, copy watch." Seriously, they would literally push through the throngs of Chinese people to get to us because they just knew we wanted to buy their crap. Alas, they were wrong. We also passed the world-famous Peninsula Hotel:
As we waited in line to board the ferry, a seemingly nice, older British woman warned us to "watch yur bags." On second thought, she seemed a little sketchy and we figured we'd better watch her. But we thanked her for her advice. Here we are not watching our bags:
Here is a view of the harbour. Yep, that's smog. Doesn't it just make you want to take a deep breath?
This harbour is a popular cruise port and every day we saw a different ocean liner:
We arrived on the other side and did some serious shopping, of all sorts. Here I am doing a little window-shopping, which was all we could do sometimes because, let's be honest, the military isn't setting any records with it's pay charts:
We did plenty of bankruptcy shopping, as well, but there was no time for pictures during all the trying-on of shoes and jeans and clothing. My favorite line from the day: "You a 26 up here," spoken to a friend by the sales woman at Seven for All Mankind (who proclaims she is "never wrong"), while indicating her neck and face region, after being wrong about my friend's size. We had lunch on the rooftop of the mall and continued to shop til we dropped that day. I think I ended up with Nine West suede peep-toe booties (that were nearly free, I might add), two pairs of Sevens (I heart Dojo), a sleeveless trench, a denim jacket, a blouse, some kids clothes and a Superman costume - all from H&M, a dress from Zara and...I think that's it! All in all, I'd say we had a very productive day. We ordered Chinese food in the room and crashed.
3 comments:
Ahhhh Star Ferry! How I miss the Star Ferry and the smog that comes with it. Did you hit the night market? It looks like you had a great time!
We hit the Ladies' Market, but it wasn't really a hit for everyone, so we skipped the night market. Honestly, though, we have the exact same stuff here in Okinawa that we saw in the markets, so... What we don't have here is REAL shopping. No Nine West, H&M, Zara, Aveda, Seven, Tiffany...so we were all aching for a mall.
Pictures of the booties please!
Sounds like a shopping day from Heaven! And I would have kissed the chinese woman if she suggested I was a size 26!!!
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