Daddy sent the kids off to sch @ 8 in the morning & i went back to sleep, after staying up late the night before to finish up with the packing.
However, i got a shock at 10am. My hp rang & it was Lionel on the line, asking what time was i picking them up. Huh? Wasnt it agreed upon on that i will picking them up at 1130am from sch, changed & head for the airport? So why was Lionel calling me at 10am instead?
It turned out that my mil made a mistake about our timing of departure, hence she did not prepare their sch unifrom. Duh!
So i went down at abt 1030am, picked the kids up, had breakfast @ Macs & went home to shower, changed, checked the luggages & basically, just hanging ard, waiting for Daddy to come home.
10 mins past 12 noon, Daddy came home, changed & we proceeded to the airport. We were on flight 3K575, bounded for Macau. Flight journey took abt 3hrs & 45mins.
We touched down Macau ard 615pm, cleared customs & took a cab to our hotel. The taxi fare cost abt MOP$78, including the airport s/c + luggage s/c. We stayed at Emperor Hotel, 10 mins walking distance to Grand Lisboa & 20-25 mins to Senado Square. (walking speed applies here)Whenever we go for holidays, 1 of my worries is that the hotel do not have our booking on hand &/or we may hv to pay additional becos of the rebooking of rooms or source for other hotels. Luckily, when we checked in this time, the hotel staff was able to locate our booking. Oh.... i forgot to say we were asked to check in on the executive floor since we booked our room catergory under executive floor. Heh..
We stayed in room 2011... hehe... coincide with year 2011. My colleague told me Emperor Hotel was one of those worst hotels one cld ever imagine; run down, old & terrible. But looking at the fotos above, what do ya think? Okay right? Well, at least for us... its fine. Clean, air-conditioned, spacious, cold & hot shower, remote TV with various channels, tea/coffee making facilities & yes, we got a King size bed as per requested.Once we put down our luggages, we went out onto the streets, in search for dinner. The taxi driver told us we could shop ard 步行街 along 大马路. I was thinking is there such a place in Macau... 步行街?
We walked round our hotel, onto the main roads, bypass Wynn Hotel, Lisboa & Grand Lisboa Hotel, taking in the sights & sounds. We stopped for our dinner. 3 dishes including 1 soup cost MOP$130.
We continued walking along the streets for abt 10 mins & was about to turned back when i caught sight of something familiar, just opposite from where we were. The grounds, the buildings... Oh yes.... we were just opposite Senado Square. Bingo!!!It dawned on me that Senado Sq. cld be the so call 步行街 the taxi driver was talking abt. This kinda street usually do not allow traffic to pass thru, hence this name. So yes, i believe he cld be referring to SS.
We crossed to the opposite side & wandered in & ard SS. Still quite crowded despite the timing which was about 9pm. Inside the Macau souvenir shop, 手信 (Koi Kei Bakery), there were many tourists making their purchases, buying Macau's homemade products; egg rolls, pineapple tarts, almond biscuits, egg tarts, bak kwa, cookies & many more.
Daddy said to return here tomorrow night to buy some of their products. We made our way back to the hotel, this time cutting the walking distance shorter since we know our way. Instead of walking along the main road & making a big round, we cut thru side roads & side lanes. Dun worry, they are all brightly lighted & filled with people walking ard. We would not risked ourselves by walking along dimly lit roads js to save time.
Once back inside our rooms, we prepared for bed. A shower, a change of clothings & milk for the kids. Morning call for tomorrow would be 730am. (kinda regretted to wake up this early - will tell u why tmr). Good night.
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