Macau–Day 3 and 4

The last day! I decided to abandon the guys and the little babe, and went with my mum across the Macau-Chinese border to shop at the Zhuhai Dongbei Complex. It is a labryinth of small shops selling lots of ladies clothes, kid’s clothes, bags, etc. We took the shuttle at 10am to the border and came back only at 3pm, after an hour of foot massage (that only cost us S$9 per person). It was a good harvest of clothes for Calista, with Christian only getting 2 pieces. We had some trouble deciding what to eat for lunch though. I was reluctant to eat at the dodgy stalls selling “beef” noodles, and settled for a sushi restaurant which appeared to be part of a chain which had garnered many awards. The salmon was such a fluorescent orange that I did not dare to take it.

While we were away, P and my Dad brought Christian and Calista to the nearby "City of Dreams” to watch a 3D bubble and magic show.

P said it had no plot and was a waste of money, but the children seemed fascinated nonetheless, from my viewing of the video. Christian even dodged at one point, when he thought the dragon was going to descend upon him.

I came back to an exhausted P, who said our children decided they both needed to do big business at the same time, while i was away. I chuckled as I saw his zombified face, and granted him leave to go wander about the shops and get a beer while they were napping. When they woke, we walked over to Taipa Village to have dinner at a chinese restaurant which wasn’t too bad. We had a leisurely time there and strolled back quite early, with enough time for the kids to run around the lobby..

Here’s a picture of them getting ready for bed.

And asleep..

We woke early the next day for our 10-something flight. Thank goodness the children napped most of the way..Hopefully they had happy memories of our trip to Macau, notwithstanding Christian’s initial comment when learning we were going to Macau which was part of China:

1) Are we going to miss Andrew’s birthday party?

2) China? I don’t want to go to China. That’s where the bad emperor made people build a great wall, and whipped them..and there’s war there too! (Darling, that’s a looong looong time ago.)

A long time ago? Before gonggong was born?

^_^