Back from Macau!

Woo! I'm back from Macau in one piece. It was quite the experience. And it was so cheap too!! It was like, $400HK, which is roughly...$70CAN...for a 2-way ticket on the boat ride there and back, one night of hotel, and including breakfast. What a deal! We did lots of sightseeing, and even went up the Macau SkyTower. My only regret was not doing the SkyWalk there. Albert and Darren chickened out and wouldn't do it, but his cousin's girlfriend was willing. But after we weren't allowed because it just finished raining and they were like, "ohhh it might be slippery". Pish-posh...! That's my hugest regret so far...not having that experience. But I guess it's ok... we took lotsa pictures =P

We also went to historic monuments and took in a lot of the former Portugese colony. Everything there is in either Portugese or Chinese, so I couldn't read pretty much anything. Talk about feeling like a foreigner! It just sucks that it has been raining for the past few days...I only hope that it doesn't continue raining for the rest of the time I'm here.. *crosses fingers*

Macau reminds me of an asian Brazil.....the people there are poor, but the tourist areas there are loaded. It's weird...you look at one road, and the right side might be old cement housing that's rusting...and the left is a huge casino. It's really strange. Everyone there looks like a gambler or a pickpocket. It's places like that that make me anxious.

-Karen