Next Stop: Hong Kong

Last Sept 18-21, I went to Hong Kong with my mom, my cousin Kat, and her mom Ninang Norie. It was an all girl trip :) I treated my mom the airfare (just the airfare though :p). And I've finally seen the Terminal 3 airport which was really nice, but I don't think I'd want to book a 5am ish flight again. (Lesson learned #1) Man, I had to wake up at 2am. Cebu Pacific wasn't late.. at all. Hooray! That's both for our flight to Hong Kong and going back to Manila. Umm they just overbooked, but they offered the next flight for those who can give way, which was at 8am and free roundtrip domestic flight anywhere in the Philippines. There were actually a lot of takers, but I didn't nudge at all because I woke up at 2am for the 5:55am flight, there, it's bold for emphasis.

Moving on.. We stayed in Holiday Inn Express in Causeway Bay which I got for HK $1,080 a night, not bad at all. Few minutes walk to the MTR, and just literally across Times Square. Check in time was at 2 PM, but we were able to check in when we arrived. Good job! There was free breakfast as well :) I only got one room so it's cheaper, declared 2 people staying, but we were actually 4. But the next time we do this, this mom-daughter bonding trip, I'd book 2 rooms because my mom kept on occupying more than half of her space. (Lesson learned #2)

I got good stuff from H&M like bags, got dresses in Mongkok, drank and bought Horlicks (I really missed drinking Horlicks), bought Nougat Candies in Queen's, and got Vitasoy. But crap, after carrying the heavy packs of Malt Vitasoy soya milk, buying the HK$32 nougat candies, there's the melamine scare. I don't know if soya milk's affected but maybe I should stop drinking it until I'm sure. I swear, the same thing happened before, we brought these blueberry cookies from Chinatown in Singapore, then months later the same cookies were pulled out of the market because they contained formaline or something. Maybe we should really stop bringing home food, or just stop buying products that came from China to avoid these mishaps. I wish this whole milk scare will be over soon.

As for collecting stuff from travels, my mom collects the ref magnets, while Ian and I collect Starbucks Tumblers! :) I got us matching tumblers, one from Hong Kong and one from Macau which had similar designs. The tumblers are around HK $90 x 6 = P540. I think our tumblers in the Philippines are sold for around P495 if I'm not mistaken. (I'm not posting the cost for the how-much-I-spent in the trip purposes, but for Google, comparison and posterity purposes :P).
We also went to Disneyland! :) It was a choice of going on a weekday in Disney or in Macau, and Disneyland won because the ticket was cheaper on a weekday, while the Macau ferry costs the same. (I think.) But it was a good choice that we went on a weekday, the line for the rides weren't super long :) We had pictures with Mickey, Minnie, Goofy, and Donald Duck! :)