Today we did a bit of homework, and then decided to go check out the site I was most excited to see - the Wishing Tree! Unfortunately, by the time we got all the way to the tree, we realized it was "under construction" and didn't look the same as it had in THE BOOK.
After a disappointing little excursion, we hailed a taxi and took the MTR to Shatin to have another failed attempt. We were looking for the Temple of 10,000 Buddhas, and after climbing several flights of escalators in the hot and humid day, we only found a Buddhist cemetary,
which we still took pictures of because it looked like a temple.
After visiting the temple, we went to dinner at the largest floating restaurant, which is in Aberdeen (the south side of Hong Kong Island). We had to take a little water taxi to get to the restaurant. The seafood was great, but it was more exciting watching other people - one group ordered prawns that were killed tableside in a glass pot of boiling water, another group of business men got drunk from saki bombing, and a third couple was in a heated fight so the boyfriend yelled at the waitress and refused to pay part of his bill. After what seemed like an exhausting week, we went home to do laundry and get some rest. Laundry ended up being quite a process, but at least part of our sanity was retrieved by having clean clothes!
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