Robot Dream

Max got a lot of laughs for falling asleep like this!
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Our last day away was a low-pressure one, also D's 32nd birthday.  We headed to Kowloon to seek out the Hong Kong Girl Guide hq, which we had stumbled across a sign for a couple days earlier.  After a few wrong guesses, we finally relocated the sign that pointed to the place, and Tonya gleefully bought up all sorts of Hong-Kong-themed stuff for her Brownies.  Max was glad to have a nice big clean floor to crawl around on while he waited for mommy to finish her shopping spree.

Robot animal band - yippee...
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Back to the MTR and up to a veg restaurant that actually existed! Lonely Planet was 2 for 6 on restaurants that we tried to find, pretty poor for a book that purports to be a 2006 edition...

Exciting for a 5-year-old maybe

We were hungry and since we were a little sick of mushrooms, we ordered 4 dishes all with no mushrooms in the description.  ALL of them had mushrooms, and two of them were mostly mushrooms.  Yuck.  So, we ate around the shrooms as much as possible and stuffed ourselves with the more yummy bits.

Max helping daddy pack his bag
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Then what was planned to be the main event of the day, we headed up to the end of the Tsuen Wan line to 'The Discovery Centre' to see the Robot Dream Exhibition, purportedly a collection of some of the most advanced robots from Japan.  Well, the Discovery Centre turned out to be a very pedestrian shopping mall, about in line with Hamilton's Centre Mall in comparison with the ultra-stylish malls in central HK.  The Robot Show was not shoddily done, but it was a collection of cheesy fairly basic animatronics, with exhibits such as the Vegetable Band and a green alien.  Exciting for a 5-year-old maybe, not so much for a newly 32-year-old D.  Luckily the tickets were cheap, which should have been a hint not to expect great things. :)

On a happier note, the mall was host to a plethora of cheesy stores where T searched up and down for the best Hello Kitty knock-off souvenir.  What fun!

Just to prove advertising works, we searched out this handbag store that had the neatest bags with cute little devils and vampire bats etc on them.  T had to have one, so now she will be the envy of mom's group with her cool new bag.  She has rationalized that it will fit her wallet and bum change equipment, so it's really a practical purchase...

Tomorrow we go home!!!

T&D&m