Last night Deborah conceded to Chinese food and didn't get sick, must be the difference between "the real stuff" and the North America version.

Today we slept in, we were exhausted from the walking yesterday so we didn't get on the move until about 10:30. The weather is cooler today, but the humidity was again pretty think. Being Sunday here in Kowloon, there were tons of people everywhere. To complicate the issue, each and every one of these people was starring into a cell phone - not looking where they were going.

The objective was shopping but as I said yesterday, there seems to be little difference between gaudy and expensive gaudy. I'm not sure what their marketing aim is, but there are rows and rows of shops selling very, very expensive jewelry and watches without anyone in the shop. I can honestly say that there are more watches in the windows of these shops that there are people in Hong Kong - it's actually scary.

Deborah decided on pizza for lunch so we got in line to order our lunch. At the counter we met a young black fellow that was originally for Memphis but was working in Hong Kong setting up shows for the Chinese that included country, pop, rock-a-billy and rock music.

One of the objectives today was to have drinks with Deborah at the Peninsula Hotel. It's one of the premium, classic hotels in Kowloon so I thought it would be nice to chill out and relax with the rich Asians. This hotel has a fleet of green Rolls Royce that shuttle it's clients in and around the city at their beckon call. We arrived on foot. Apparently the bar didn't open until 3:00 p.m. so we moved on.

We headed for the Inter Continental Hotel that sits right on the harbour in Kowloon for drinks. We order up a Cosmopolitan and Tequila for me - the bill comes in after the drinks are empty - $360HK or converted to $61.16 CAN$. Just a little too much for a second round so we head out. It's funny how things are, I bought two beers from the 7Eleven on the corner of our hotel and they were $13HK or $2.21 CAN$ - you know where the next drinks will be coming from.

There's a picture attached to this blog of one of the baubles in the window. I'm not sure of the caret size but this little baby can be yours for 1,965,000HK$ or for a measly $333,818.39 CAN$. Not sure if they have a lay-a-way plan but again, we moved on.

Muscles still hurting from yesterday, we decided it was just too far to walk home so we grabbed a cab from the Inter Continental back to the Butterfly at 21 Prat. Quite a deal at $33HK or just over $5CAN$ - why have I been schlepping my ass all over Hong Kong - I have no idea. Tomorrow is departure day and we'll be returning to Vancouver. Our flight leaves at 4:30 p.m. on Monday and we'll be arriving in Vancouver at 12:55 on Sunday - figure that one out. Just wish I could figure out how I could buy a lottery ticket from this side.

Dinner tonight was Japanese. Deborah has made great strides over the years but I guess we both expected North American Japanese - this was not the case. It was a case of "cook your own" chicken, beef and pork along with a host of many different vegetables, fish and kimchee.

We're outta here tomorrow so we'll figure out the return transportation requirement so that we can get to our 4:30 flight. Thanks for following us for the last 36 days. We're heading home.