Ocean Park Hong Kong

Our time in Hong Kong could be summed up with the words 'theme parks'. We spent two out of our three days at theme parks; the first of the two was at Ocean Park. This place was pretty unique, and who knew Hong Kong to be so beautiful?

This was taken on the way to the park from the top of a double decker bus. The kids were so excited to ride on one.

Park entrance. It cost about 200 US dollars for our family of five to visit the park for the day.

One of the first things you see as you walk in is the amazing skytram that takes you up to the other part of the park. Pretty cool!

This time of year is pretty drizzly in HK, but it's humid so it's a warm rain.

This thing just kept going.

Avie's my lucky kid, always winning stuff! Rayce on the other hand...

Avie assumes her normal position going through the stinky penguin enclosure.

Orchids everywhere!

Rickshaw fun in the old Hong Kong area.

Pretty sure our kids are more mature than us!

Great day at Ocean Park Hong Kong! Next up Hong Kong Disneyland!

Hong Kong

We flew out of Tokyo early morning the first day of Spring Break and landed at Hong Kong International Airport about 9:30 in the morning ready to spend that whole first day exploring the city. After two frustrating hours at the airport having trouble with our debit card and on the phone with our bank we had Hong Kong Dollars in hand and were finally ready to go.

After finding our hotel pretty easily we checked out the area around the hotel including the jade market.

We stayed in the Kowloon area of Hong Kong.

Later that night we made it over to Hong Kong Island to check out the tram and ride it to Victoria Peak. Hong Kong Island is amazing, clean, with spectacular skyscrapers and more greenery than you expect.

This is me trying to get a shot out the window of the city because sadly at the top of the peak it was so foggy, visibility was nonexistent.

Rayce and Avie with wax Bruce Lee.

The buildings here are pretty impressive; I've never been in another city quite like Hong Kong.

One of the many double-decker buses that occupy Hong Kong's streets. Hong Kong has one of the easiest and most accessible public transit systems of any city we've ever visited. More to come.

Shiraito Falls

We've been out of town for a couple of weeks on one last hurrah before we move in August. I hope its not the last but I have a feeling life is going to get busy with all the changes soon to come. Our trip was to Hong Kong, Siem Reap, Cambodia, and two locations in Thailand. I'm starting with a short day trip we took just outside Tokyo. We went to go see a phlox flower field near Mt Fuji but after driving almost two hours from where we were staying we found out the flower fields weren't open for another week! The area surrounding Mt Fuji has plenty of other things to do; we ended up visiting Shiraito Falls which was just another 15 minutes away.

Look at these amazing cherry blossoms!

A clear day's view of Fuji.

Shiraito Falls. We definitely weren't expecting this, the pictures online just didn't make it seem as grand as it is.

I was trying to let Rayce just explore but pretty confident that he was going to fall in any second.

These are the kind of places I could stay all day, but ice cream was calling to the kids. This was a great start to our trip. If you're ever around the base of Mt Fuji, check out Shiraito Falls!