Yuen Po Bird Garden (1 of 5), Flower Market (1 of 5), Goldfish Market (1 of 5), HK Space Museum (1 of 5), HK Arts Museum (2 of 5), Star Ferry (1 of 5)
You know that saying about the whole is greater than the sum of its parts? Well today was a great example of the true meaning of that statement. Each individual sight we saw by itself was a big disappointment - yet the whole experience turned out to be a lot of fun. Our day started like most - to the MTR station and headed to Prince Edward in Kowloon. The Bird garden was quite lame. Several old guys showing off their birds to one another and it turns out to be a social gathering more than anything else. Both the Flower and Goldfish markets turned out to be a couple of dozen stores on a couple of streets all selling the same thing. The Space Museum looks like it didn't update any displays since the early 1980's... which is why they still had a display touting the next Challenger space shuttle launch... in 1986! The Arts Museum didn't do it for us and the much hyped Star Ferry felt more like you were docking a fishing vessel on its way to get the morning stock of fish. Did I mentioned it rained on and off the entire day? So why was the sum of all these disappoints fun? The attractions were such a disappointment that it was comical so we made the best of a bad situation. We had a good laugh at the old guys being macho with one another. Sort of like a car club in America except with birds. On the way through the Flower and Bird markets, we had the best Stinky Tofu we've had since Taiwan - which brought back fond memories. On Nathan Rd, I was tempted several dozen times (since that's how many watch stores there are) in finally purchasing that RADO that keeps staring me in the face. I swear there were 5 Chow Tai Fook's on Nathan in a 6 block stretch.
Hopefully better luck tomorrow - but this is a day we won't soon forget for all the right reasons.
