Life in Hong Kong: Shopping Day

Grace and I ventured downtown today to run some errands. This was our first time taking the bus downtown. Other than the fact that I would have stepped in front of traffic when crossing the street to the appropriate bus stop if Grace hadn't yelled at me (still getting used to traffic travelling on the opposite side of the street), we made it without any trouble! The mini-bus loop we live on runs from the Chai Wan MTR down to Stanley. We were headed to the MTR. The mini-buses are fantastic, but they only have 16 seats and you are not allowed to stand. We lucked out with the third mini-bus to pass (only a 20 min wait).

We made it to the MTR a little before 1:00. and took the MTR to the Tai Koo Station. The MTR is wide open at 1:00 on a Saturday.

At our first stop we found a mall, City Plaza, that will be a good place to shop for clothes. There are a lot of malls in Hong Kong, but most of them are very high end...no Eddie Bauer's, Kohls, etc. We found our Kohls equivalent though, Wing On. Grace found Marks and Spencer and H & M.

From Tai Koo we hopped back onto the MTR about 2 hours later to head to Causeway Bay. Now Hong Kong was starting to wake-up:)

Causeway Bay is a very popular area. One of the stops we had to make in Causeway Bay was Ikea. I am developing a love/hate relationship with Ikea. It is one-stop shopping for many things, but it is an absolute zoo!

Shopping in Hong Kong is quite a different experience. You can't just run your bags out to the car when you start to get too many. You are either carrying the bags (if they give you bags) with you the entire time, or you have them delivered. I spent the past week at the house waiting for multiple deliveries, so I didn't want to spend this week the same way. Grace and I lugged our stuff all over. By the time we were done it was about 5:30. There was no way we were going to manage to get back onto the MTR with all that we were carrying, so we went to Hong Kong's Times Square to catch a taxi.