A day in Macau

Went to macau on sat with tracy and her Hubby. We decided on a day trip and we set off abt noon after lunch. The ferry took an hour to Macau and it was bloody bad for me and Tracy. We were suffered from motion sickness. The water was so choppy and we were giddy and feeling puky the whole way.

We took bus 3A (cost us only Hk$2.50 each) to the senado square and walked towards St Paul Ruins. We stop by a church to visit the sacred treasures museum. Basically its all artifacts of paintings, models and tools used in their mass or priests etc dated many years back. It wasnt anything grand but still okie.

St Paul's Ruin was truly a wall on its own. We speculate on the 101 reasons why it was just left with the wall that wasnt burnt down. We walked up the stairs behind the wall and as we reached the top, me and tracy froze. we were both afriad of heights and it didnt help that the metal railings was the sort with holes that u can looked down. So we immediately did a turn and head straight down and to visit the crypts instead. There was nothing much except piles of incomplete bones that was matyrs of Japan.

After that, we went off to the fortress which was really nothing and then we moved on to casa gardens. In the garden, we saw 10 murals on the floor and realise that it was a story telling mural. We saw the sign that said waterfall and so we walked in. Only to discover 3 stacked up rocks and waterfall that had long ceased operation. Such a con job! Instead we found ourselves in a children playgrd and libray. Sigh.

After which we walked back towards St Paul and bought so much local snacks, esp this cuttlefish speciality that was absolutely fabulous! We swiped each a huge bag of snacks! I bought till abt HK350.

As we head towards the bustsop, we saw a crowd of people outside the St dominic church with cameras. We saw school scots forming human barricade on two sides outside the entrance. I whipped out my guide book and realised it was an annual procession (on every 13th may) from this church to another chapel, where the nuns will carry the holy mary figurine etc and walked the procession.

Dunno why the people in front of us went away and went into the church but we stayed put and so we ended up rite in front of the Q. The processions started abt 5.30 -6pm and it was pretty nice to watch. I didnt know why they were chanting the same verse over the loud speaker over and over again in cantonese until tracy explained they were doing the rosary chants in sets according to the beads. Argh i see. Always handy to have catholic frens to explain the mystery.

We waited for a while for the bus back. It was dusty and crowdd and we had to stand on the way to the ferry terminal. We manage to catch the 8 pm ferry but it cost HK176 instead of HK150 coz it was a nite service. The trip back was slighty better as the turbo jet ferry seemed more stable. But once we hit HK waters, we felt sick again and didnt help when we were so hungry. We ate like a cow at Maxim food place.

All in all, a good day coz it was cloudy and wasnt hot. Havent laughed so much for a long while. Its always fun to have tracy and hb ard!