Last Sunday. Finally
I'd like to start this post by mentioning I've only slept 4.5 hrs in the last 32, so I'm less than on top of my game right now. But more about that in a post not about Sunday.
Sunday was the best day in HK thusfar. Best days often involve good food. It was Anna and Mary's Birthdays (officially) and we decided to go all out.
We Wei Lun-ers slept in until about 12:30 and then got up and made Anna Birthday Breakfast. Dannen (formerly known as 'Alli', but now going by Dannen to lower confusion on the Adi, Ali, Alli, Abby, Anna, Hannah front) made vegan pancakes. Hannah made crepes and chocolate sauce. Beth made fruit salad (to pile on the crepes and choco). I made coffee. Because I'm not only useless to vegitarians, I know what is important to Anna in the 'morning'.
Basically we ate until our eyes popped out. It was ***so*** good. I ate no less than 6 crepes, two pancakes and two left over vegan cookies from teh night before. When we ran out of fruit and choco sauce, I smothered my stuff in Nutella. We finally finished breakfast around 2.
We were supposed to meet the rest of the international crowd at 3, but we're girls and that wasn't happening. Beth and I had to go to the store first anyway. To skip the unpleasantly long journey, we eventually arrived at a BBQ near the peak (highest pt on the island, which we walked to carrying groceries.)
Beth and I totally won the bbq. That is, if the bbq had been a contest, we would have dominated. We made: salmon covered in lemon juice and garlic, avacados, pineapples in brown sugar, and had lime nachos with peach salsa. We brought up some corn too, but after all that, we really couldnt be bothered to make it. It was soooooooooo good. so good. MMMMMM salmon.
While up there with approx 25 Internationals, we did manage to finish off a few bottles of wine and some other beverages too. This made the journey down the mountain significantly harder in the dark, while it started to rain. But we basically made it down unscathed. This must have been about 8 pm.
We all headed back to the dorms, regrouped, and headed out for karaoke and drinks. Unfortunately the staff at the karaoke place were horribly unaccomodating (especially since we were literally the only people there on a sunday night) so we walked to the revolving restaurant instead. An excellent choice. RR is in cantral on the 62nd floor of a building and it rotates reeeeally slowly and they have all-you-can-drink Carlesburg for only $88HK. You really can't beat that.
I sat with Dannen, Hannah, Oliver (a german) and Zach (a west-coaster with the heart of a midwesterner). Great fun had by all. So great that when the restaurant closed it was determined we should run over to LKF for another drink and dancing. Look out Insomnia.
Too much fun was had, Mary was a dancing queen (as was I) and Chris (my new bestest friend) was buying shots and we were all having a gay old time. Eventually people left in waves and I was left with Chris, Mary, and Dannen- both girls in pretty falling-over shape. With some difficulty we all managed to get into a cab and get home, but not before getting birthday wishes from the cabbie, forcing him to break traffic laws, losing my long-sleeved shirt, and getting the cabbie's number. Oh taxis.
We were home and in bed before 5, and that was officially the 3rd big night in a row for us. Trust me, Cantonese with Dannen, Kelly and Anna the next day was a non-stop laugh-fest. We really needed a break at that point. So I took Monday off.
-Abby
P.S. Pics!
Sunday was the best day in HK thusfar. Best days often involve good food. It was Anna and Mary's Birthdays (officially) and we decided to go all out.
We Wei Lun-ers slept in until about 12:30 and then got up and made Anna Birthday Breakfast. Dannen (formerly known as 'Alli', but now going by Dannen to lower confusion on the Adi, Ali, Alli, Abby, Anna, Hannah front) made vegan pancakes. Hannah made crepes and chocolate sauce. Beth made fruit salad (to pile on the crepes and choco). I made coffee. Because I'm not only useless to vegitarians, I know what is important to Anna in the 'morning'.
Basically we ate until our eyes popped out. It was ***so*** good. I ate no less than 6 crepes, two pancakes and two left over vegan cookies from teh night before. When we ran out of fruit and choco sauce, I smothered my stuff in Nutella. We finally finished breakfast around 2.
We were supposed to meet the rest of the international crowd at 3, but we're girls and that wasn't happening. Beth and I had to go to the store first anyway. To skip the unpleasantly long journey, we eventually arrived at a BBQ near the peak (highest pt on the island, which we walked to carrying groceries.)
Beth and I totally won the bbq. That is, if the bbq had been a contest, we would have dominated. We made: salmon covered in lemon juice and garlic, avacados, pineapples in brown sugar, and had lime nachos with peach salsa. We brought up some corn too, but after all that, we really couldnt be bothered to make it. It was soooooooooo good. so good. MMMMMM salmon.
While up there with approx 25 Internationals, we did manage to finish off a few bottles of wine and some other beverages too. This made the journey down the mountain significantly harder in the dark, while it started to rain. But we basically made it down unscathed. This must have been about 8 pm.
We all headed back to the dorms, regrouped, and headed out for karaoke and drinks. Unfortunately the staff at the karaoke place were horribly unaccomodating (especially since we were literally the only people there on a sunday night) so we walked to the revolving restaurant instead. An excellent choice. RR is in cantral on the 62nd floor of a building and it rotates reeeeally slowly and they have all-you-can-drink Carlesburg for only $88HK. You really can't beat that.
I sat with Dannen, Hannah, Oliver (a german) and Zach (a west-coaster with the heart of a midwesterner). Great fun had by all. So great that when the restaurant closed it was determined we should run over to LKF for another drink and dancing. Look out Insomnia.
Too much fun was had, Mary was a dancing queen (as was I) and Chris (my new bestest friend) was buying shots and we were all having a gay old time. Eventually people left in waves and I was left with Chris, Mary, and Dannen- both girls in pretty falling-over shape. With some difficulty we all managed to get into a cab and get home, but not before getting birthday wishes from the cabbie, forcing him to break traffic laws, losing my long-sleeved shirt, and getting the cabbie's number. Oh taxis.
We were home and in bed before 5, and that was officially the 3rd big night in a row for us. Trust me, Cantonese with Dannen, Kelly and Anna the next day was a non-stop laugh-fest. We really needed a break at that point. So I took Monday off.
-Abby
P.S. Pics!
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