Danny's New Haircut

Tonight Danny and I walked over to the Barber shop. He needed it cut, it looked pretty shabby. Both he and Justin's hair grow so fast. After it was cut the guy asked him if he wanted gel in it and then gave him a really short massage. Danny was smiling from ear to ear. Right before we left Danny said he wanted to pay for his haircut so he paid 5 pesos as a tip to the guy. It was really cute. Walking home he said he wanted to pay his "tip" so he didn't go to jail. I explained that you pay for the haircut and the tip is extra but I don't think he got it. Anyway, he looked so grown up that I had to snap a photo of him. MY BABY IS GROWING UP!!!!!

I told him this and he said that he wasn't getting that big yet and that he wanted to stay with me forever. I told him that one day he would want to move out but he was adamant that he wouldn't. I told him that I couldn't go to college with him and his answer was that he would make a door with a long hallway so I could come visit him all the time and we wouldn't be apart. I chuckled and then I asked him what about going on his mission? I couldn't go there with him. He thought I could. I asked him what he would do if he was on the other side of the ocean, how would we be together? He said he'd make a long tunnel under the water with a door so he could come see me.

Treasure these moments, right, because they are fleeting. Plus, now I have it down in writing so when he is older I can show him this and embarrass him.

THE PANDAS

The highlight of Ocean Adventure for me was going to see the Pandas. Danny didn't want to go see them, he wanted to go on the Great Glass Circle. I had to threaten him to get him to go but look at them, they are just so cute.

OCEAN ADVENTURE

We went to an amusement park called Ocean Adventure. There was an aquarium with lots and lots of jellyfish, sharks and huge stingrays. Part of the park was up on the mountain so you had to take these really steep escaladors to get up to the top where the rides were. Since it was the day after Halloween they had skeletons on the sides of the hill. Unfortunately, Danny wasn't tall enough to ride the rollercoasters but he had fun on the carousel and ferris wheel. One of the highlights of the trip was "The Great Glass Circle" Prior to our trip I bought the book The Great Glass Elevator because Danny loves Charlie and the Chocolate factory so much. We brought it with and read some in the airport and during some down time. There was a ride that you took from the top of the park down to the bottom. The view was amazing. It was shaped like a circle and was attached to a cable, sort of like the ride at the Arizona zoo but much, much longer. He really liked that. Finally, we ended the day with the water ride. We went down it twice. Right before getting on the flune ride there was a woman who sold me a poncho to keep the camera dry. Thank goodness for that or it would have been ruined. We didn't get too wet the first time but on the second, Danny was soaked. We changed his clothes so he didn't have to go home in the bus all wet. We had a fun Day.

Victoria Perk

Part of our tour was going up to Victoria Perk to get a view of the city. Poor Danny had hives all over his body. Justin put some sun block on him that we had never tried before and he broke out and itched like crazy. Of course I didn't bring any benadryl with and keeping him from scratching was a challenge. We barely made it on the cable car and were standing in the isle on our trip up. I was trying to lightly tickle/scratch his hives when a woman sitting in front of us handed me some itch cream. What luck! We put it on (which was a challenge since we were going up a very long, steap hill/mountain but we managed to make it up there. Before the turn of the century the wealthy British families settled up there but there was no road to walk up so it would take the servants all day to walk down, get what they needed from the city, and then go back up. I don't know how they did it. Once up there we found a 7-11 and it had some cream that we lathered all over him. It helped within 10 minutes. Thank heaven for small miracles. The view was pretty amazing although it was very smoggy out.

Our guide showed us a photo taken from 1911 and almost all of the tall buildings were not there. There were a few small ones but you could see how industrialization has changed the face of Hong Kong. Many of the citizens have complained about the tall sky scrapers so the government said that no more new buildings will be built. Poor Disneyland. The owners bought lots of land to use for hotels and park rides but now it is just grass and trees. They can't expand.

The Oldest Temple in Hong Kong

This is the oldest temple in Hong Kong. Before going and burning insense you would hit the gong 3 times to anounce your presence to their Gods. We came on All Saints Day so there were people there who lit candles and burned insence. Danny didn't like the smell very much and was getting very restless so I took him outside and there was a little park area across the street that he played in. It actually looks pretty small from the outside but it really was a lot bigger on the inside.

Floating Resturant

Hong Kong was a lot of fun. We did so much and I'm having a hard time deciding what photos to put on. On part of our tour we took a boat ride and saw the junk boats or boat people (people who live on their boats and rarely get off) then we went to a floating resturant for lunch. It was really nice but Danny didn't like the food. We ate Dim Sum.

I'VE BEEN HACKED

Sorry if you received an email requesting money. Someone hacked into my email. It got everyone in my email, my blog, and my facebook accounts. You might want to change your passwords.