The Toothbrush Memoir: Hong Kong

Our last big trip in this part of the world (at least for now) was to Hong Kong and Singapore. Because of the volume of pictures I'll split the posts.

A beautiful city.

Our first hotel was on Hong Kong Island in a part called Happy Valley

We took the tram up to Victoria Peak to take in the view

Up where the hawks flew

We did a trick I learned at the Top of the Rock in NY; if you go in the evening you get day and night views.

Growing up. I hope they remember all of this.

Amazing. We then hopped a cab to get down to the symphony of lights show on Kowloon Bay

We made it just in time

Every night they light up the buildings on both sides of the bay to music.

Our kids were excited to see Lord Shen's (the peacock from Kung Fu Panda 3) boat

I liked the light reflection on the bay

After the show we walked down the Avenue of Stars

The famous Bruce Lee statue

Our youngest channeling the Kung Fu

Belle greeted us at our next hotel

The boys wouldn't get in the picture (our oldest boy said he couldn't because she was too pretty)

This is the hotel maze

I told my wife to take pictures of whatever she wanted and this was what she took

Hong Kong Disney is a little small, but the fact that we could walk to it from our hotel was amazing it was only 3/4 of a mile away. No buses full of sweaty people to deal with.

Our daughter with a flower in her hair and the boys seconds before they fell in the hedge

My good looking family

I really like the mountain guy from Fantasia, so this was cool

Mickey!

Pluto in his Chinese hat

Then there was this side show that was more like Howl-o-scream than Disney, but it was cool. Our daughter really liked this gal

This was the ice queen

The siren's buddy was a bat guy

He was pretty cool, too

The villains parade

Spooky! I love Halloween

walking to the park the next day

drums in adventure land

my wife liked this statue, so I emulated it

checking in with Tinkerbelle

then we shrunk down and went to Toy Story land

speedy

my oldest boy saw this on a ride he and I rode and said, "Hey Dad, do you see that?" and I said yeah, and he said, "that says no dancing on the ride." He's hilarious

when you got close to Rex he would talk to you

a fun part of the park

Then it was off to Mystic Mansion. The word was this ride is unique to Hong Kong Disney because their beliefs did not allow for a haunted house. Ironically, it didn't seem to limit the ghosts and ghouls that were part of the Halloween festivities.

we were really stoked because the story is a collector brought back stuff from all over the world and an enchanted music box animates it all. My wife says this is like our dream house.

a lot of this fake stuff is cooler than the real stuff

I really liked it. In another twist it was a little too scary for the kids, and they like the Haunted Mansion.

I've actually seen the real one of these in the British museum

my wife walking like an Egyptian

great eyes

our kids are wanted

Chip n Dale pumpkins in Venice?

The Small World ride here had the Disney characters in their countries of origin, like Peter Pan in England and here Jungle Book in India. It was different and fun.

Ariel under the sea

a much needed break for food

then some fun in the space water park

they were soaked

we finally got to do Astro Blasters (we've never been able to get in in the states) and I scored enough to be Space Ace

walking home

to our gorgeous hotel

the next day we went to the temple

We took turns going through and there was a park in front for the kids to play in

then we went to the Chi Lin nunnery. We asked multiple cabbies where this was and finally, when we had given up our last one realized we were saying it wrong