After dim sum, the older folks went off to do their thing while myself, bro and the older daughter of the family headed off on our own. We decided to check out the Times Square shopping mall on HK Island. The stores are pretty much the same as the other malls we've been to. This place, however, is on 8 levels. But, each level is relatively small, ergo the many levels. Space being such a valuable commodity, the only way to expand is upwards! When we had our fill of that, we hopped onto one of the trolleys (a still heavily used relic from the olden days) to make our way from east to west to where the series of moving walkways and escalators that led up and up the hillside. It all ended at Conduit Road. Really, there's not much once you get up there. So, we made our way back down. I was getting a bit tired, so we made our way to the IFC Mall and had a bit of a late lunch there.
Afterwards, we went to the Elements shopping center (yet another one!). It's a relatively new mall. It's rather nice as well. Something interesting we learned from Theresa (daughter of family). In Hong Kong, people tend to want to buy the latest and greatest. The outlets that we've seen carry end of season or end of run items. This would explain by there really isn't that huge of a draw to those outlet centers like the one we saw at Tung Chung station when we went to see the Buddha. Hmm. Also, it seems that people here are really into the big name brands like Louis Vuitton, Coach, Gucci, etc. Almost every mall we've been to there were at least one of these high end shops on the premises.
Anyway... By now it was getting late in the day. I think we were going to go out for dinner. So Theresa came back with us. Mom convinced her to go out to dinner with us. We found some place on Nathan Rd. for supper. It wasn't bad. So far it's been hard to find any really bad food here.
So now, I am pooped. My feet are weary from about 6 hrs of walking. I think all the walking is compensating (I hope!) for the all the food! :-p
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