We took the tram to Central and the ferry to Kowloon to see the Museum of Art (free on Wednesdays). The contemporary exhibit on Antionio Mak included his own works as well as those made by others in response to his work. Mak's work consisted of very impressive and very expressive bronze sculptures. Karla really liked a piece made out of branches, masking tape and brown wrapping paper. Another accumulation artist who uses found objects and likes to wrap them. Turns out that there are more crazies out there! Alicia liked a small bronze figure of a man folding into pieces like and accordion. We both liked Mak's love of big cats. There was even a room with four giant screens showing a tiger really close up.
The other exhibits of antiquities, traditional flower paintings, horse painting and ceramics were very interesting and provided a few hours of entertainment. Anything that keeps us off the streets is a good thing.
We then grabbed a so-so sandwich to go and hopped on a ferry to get back to Central, where we took yet another ferry to the small island of Lamma. No cars are allowed on the island and they depend largely on fishing. We arrived at one port and walked an hour and a half to the next, stopping for a few minutes at the beach to cool our feet off in the pacific ocean. No big deal or anything.
We were accompanied by Mike from Denmark, a pilot of charter planes who we met on the ferry. It turns out that he was more lost than us (although we are quite good at navigating if I do say so myself). It was kind of random but that's how it always is when you meet people while traveling. He was good company and had the great idea of having the most delicious seafood meal you could imagine. Unfortunately we didn't get to the fruit course with enough time as we had to grab the 5:30 ferry to get to Kowloon in time to see the sound and light show over Hong Kong island at 8pm. Before the show we realized that we needed to get money out, and so went on a wild goose chase to get some. Unfortunately it took too long and Mike was no where to be seen when we got back. Hopefully he didn't think we were trying to ditch him, but we figured that he just had to meet his friend for dinner earlier than he thought and had to go. That's how it is on this trip. One minute you meet someone and the next they are just a mere memory. It's sad when you think about all of the people who we have met who we will never see again.
After the show we took a ferry back across and then a tram to the hotel and then walked around to try to find where we were to catch the bus from to get to the airport. We liked the view on the way in and thought it was nicer to take the hour bus (it was also a quarter of the price of the airport metro). We ended the night by packing for Beijing tomorrow and listened to the Blackberry belt out Christmas tunes.
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