Sunday and it was museum day! We went to the Hong Kong Art Museum, the Science Museum and the Cultural Arts Center. It's impossible to see everything, so I bought a 6-month ticket, which cost $50HK (about $7US). Can you believe that? I can go into like six different museums as much as I want to for six months and it only cost $7! I guess Socialism has its advantages; too bad I didn't know about them when I took that 'Socialism versus Capitalism' class in college. I might have argued for the Socialism side :-). By the way, everything is so clean here and crime is nearly non-existent (although fines are hefty and serious crimes are punishable by swift death - no appeals here!). But, it's actually kind of great! At the Cultural Center, we saw an exhibition of a local artist and we got to vote on our favorite painting (his genre was flowers/outdoor scenery). I can go online August 8th to see which painting one. Andy took several pics, so I'll upload them when he sends them to me.
We walked through the world famous Peninsula Hotel which has all the top designers there (Prada, Louis Vuitton, Tiffany, Versace, Cartier, Hermes, etc). The hotel also owns a fleet of Bentleys for their high-end clientele. We ended the day by going to a happy hour at the Sheraton next door because it had this roof-top floor bar that looked out at Hong King and having dinner at Morton's Steakhouse. Since we're on company funds, we shared everything due to the price (ordered one appetizer, one salad and one entree), but that was plenty of food!
Today was a work day; nothing special to talk about (a few more meet & greets). But, tomorrow (my B-Day), we're heading over to the competition (Ocean Park - similar to SeaWorld) and the team is taking me out to dinner (some American joint called Dan Ryan's that has BBQ, wings, fries, beer, etc; you know all the stuff that the think an American would want :-)
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