Sunday, Oct 7 - Day 7

I've never been intimidated by breakfast in my life, not until I had it at the Teahouse restuarant here at the Hong Kong Parkview. Everything was literally served on silver salvers. The tea sets were all made from real silver, and the food was spread out as far as the eye could see. Everything was so delicious but quite expensive. We would soon have to find a store and stock up on food so we could regularly eat meals in our hotel room at a much lesser cost.

Today was the day we tried to use the washer and dryer for the first time. It seemed rather ingenious to us when we realized that due to space limitations over here, many washers and dryers are built together, as a single unit. It was that way in our hotel rooms. Yes, rooms...we needed two hotel rooms so we'd all have a place to sleep. Anyway, we needed clean clothes so I endeavoured to learn how to use this fantastical device. It wasn't a good experiment really, especially since the manual read from front to back and was written in pseudo-English. We also realized we needed to buy laundry detergent so we gave up and sent our clothes out to be laundered.

The rest of this day was spent exploring the hotel and resort.