Friday, June 06, 2008

Science Museum

We woke to a horrible rainy day, and decided to go and try the science museum again. We caught the free bus down to the harbour and then from there we got the train. The great thing about Hong Kong is that most stations are well connected to the main attractions, as so getting to places is very easy. Once we had left the train we had a 5 minute walk and 90% of that was undercover. The science museum cost us $25HK and was well worth the money. As we entered it were met with a huge energy machine in the atrium which covered the 4 floors of the museum. We headed off to the mirrors and light exhibit to start. Whilst we wandered around it occurred to me that we were going to be in here for some time.



The museum had lots of different areas, one of our favourites was the telecommunications area. This included a mock up TV studio and editing suite, we had loads of fun pretending to be TV news reporters and ziggy even helped.



We spent about 5 hours playing in the museum, the time just flew by. We realised that we hadn't had any lunch and were both staving. We had seen a pizza hut earlier on in the week not far from our hotel, so set off on a mission to find it. As we got outside it was still raining but fortunately we were well prepared in true scout style.



We eventually found pizza hut and enjoyed every bite. Not far from pizza hut was a local cinema, which we found out it showed English films with Chinese subtitles, result! Tj won the toss, so we went and watched "Sex and the City" which was better than i thought it would be. In previous posts we have mentioned that the seats are quite small, the cinema seats are the exception to the rule, they were bigger than uk cinema seats and in leather. Very comfortable!
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Wow Tj you have lost loads of weight to hide behind that post in the science museum!!!! lol... Glad your having fun, were all missing you both loads can't wait to catch up with you in 8 weeks.The Smiths xx

Anonymous said...

glad to hear you guys are having fun, interesting read.

Look afterr each other. Anita

lyn.gallard2@blogger.com said...

thought you would both like to know that Pheobe is basking in the english sunshine and in spain its 30 + degrees - even the pool is 26+ . Like the kagoule tj!!!
Speak soon.
Mum x

lyn.gallard2@blogger.com said...

Hi both, Hope you are still enjoying yourselves too much to write ? Are you in Bangkok now? What is it like ?
Can you text us or put an update on the blog ?
Love Mum & Dad x

Anonymous said...

Hey Kids...

your not going to believe it, but your little wonder Doggy RAN all theway to the Memorial Park & and Back again on Sunday, as me Lucy & the Boys went on a bike ride... she seems to really enjoy going places with us ! and she's definatly warming to me... No wee's on me or the floor yet ! (Now i've gone and Jinxed it !! ) she's even taken to jumping up on my lap when im sitting in the garden :-)

I'm kinda quite enjoying having her around as Dan loves playing with her, and telling her "to Get in your bed Pheobie" & "No Barking Pheobie" . Mind you i'm still not very good at picking up the Poo's... One dog poo, has the effect of making me Heave for 10 Miniutes :-( and pheobie laves me loads, in a little trail !

What did you manage to but in HK then ? whats the new camera ?

See you soon !! only 7 weeks now :-)))))))

Anonymous said...

Trust you to sniff out the science and space museums, lol. It looks really great there, and so cheap too, like the birdie. You certainly seem to be experimenting with the food. Have you tried any local 'delicacies' that would make our stomachs churn yet?

Oh, just got Louise a new laptop to be all studenty with. Its so cool, green with Vista and Office 07. Even the laptop bag matches it!!

Take care, keep on blogging

Anonymous said...

Glad all's going well. Phoebe had a great time with Tinker and me last weekend. (Piccies on Facebook!)I realised that she'd finally started to assert herself when I found her curled up in TinkerDog's bed knawing on her bone! Missing you guys loads. Liz xxx