We seriously all woke up with muscle ache in our calves. Obviously we had done some hard work from yday's descend from the Peak. I am quite sure I had burnt yday's food intake. Haha.
The plan was to go to the Lamma island. According to weather forecast, there will be patches of rain but I was hanging on to thin hope. Patches of rain is an understatement, we stepped out of the hotel to find a light drizzle that turned heavy when we were done.
We went back to hotel room for the bathroom. It was still raining when we were all ready. It didnt feel like a good plan to stick to Lamma island. I don't think it would be fun to be stuck outdoor with the rain even though we had packed raincoat for the kids. Moreover, we don't know how chilly or tough it would be in the wet weather condition. See how wet or was from our hotel window.
Eventually, we decided to go shopping. Seriously, I didn't plan for any shopping in our itinerary and didn't research where to shop. Daddy Lim suggested Haborcity and we were on our way. Since we missed Space Musuem yday, we thought it would be a good idea to do so on this rainy day. The Space Museum is located near to the Haborcity but opens at 1pm. The plan was to linger in the mall and have lunch before we head to the Space Museum.
It was drizzling the entire way from our hotel to Haborcity. We were too lazy to dress the kids in raincoat and we put them in our water resistant jacket instead.
The mall crawl was painful until Lil Shauna saw and fell in love with an Adidas jacket. This is my Christmas present to her. She couldn't wait to don it.
We had lunch at 大家乐.
I remembered eating at this chain of restaurants whenever I was in HKG. The food was really good, value for price. I especially love the salted egg and rice. It had been such a long time ago that I had salted egg with rice. Yummy.
Finally, it was 1pm and we walked to the Space Museum. We walked past the Victoria Habor and were reminded of our last trip here with the SHSS gang. The kids were babies then. Looked at the dark sky. It was a great choice to skip the Lamma island.
We reached the Space Museum only to find that the exhibitions were closed for upgrading.
What the.... Luckily, the omnitheatre was still opened and we caught the show "Wonders of the Arctic" at 1.30pm.
It was a good show. We were provided with headphone that gave us instant translation. I found the documentary educational and interesting. Zaky was moving nonstop; Lil Shauna complained of headache after the 42 mins show bcos of the globe screen and Daddy Lim actually dozed off. Zzzzzz. It must be the lunch.
The show ended at 2ish. With no other plan in mind, we decided to go to a Cat's cafe. Daddy Lim Googled and found the Ah Meow Cafe. We had to take the MTR and walked but nobody complained.
The cafe was located in some really old residential building. We did find the cat cafe and there was a minimum order of a drink/ desert per person. It was crowded and we were told that we could only stay max 1.5 hr. The cafe was nicely done up like many of the cat cafes that we had been to.
There are not many cats in the cafe actually. There was also too little space and too many people. Most of the cats were inactive, not very people friendly and chose to sleep the afternoon away. The staff were also eager to remind the visitors to let the cats have their way, not to disturb the cats if they were sleeping and not to chase after the cats. Zaky got too excited at times and was gently told off by the staff.
Lil Shauna hid under table to play with a cat sitting/ napping on one of our chairs.
There was not enough activities to entertain the kids. We didn't managed to stay 1.5hr. The last part, the kids went aeound snapping pictures.
I think this is a different kind of cat cafe. The customers were supposed to sit/ chit chat and spend quiet time while the cats roam freely or nap by your side. Unfortunately, this kind of cat cafe doesn't suit the suits very well.
It was still early when we headed back to the hotel. We lazed around, watched TV and went for dinner nearby.
We found a Korean restaurant that serves a variety of chicken dishes and were very much reminded of Korea. We ordered fried chicken in cream sauce.
It was a little too cheesy for my liking but you can tell that Daddy Lim and Lil Shauna tolerated the cheesy chicken better than me.
We had to buy KFC back to the hotel to "top up" bcos the cheesy fried chicken was slightly spicy and kids didn't eat much.
Mummy Lim
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