Pink and Undecided

Me & my Baby Boy decked in raincoats

Just woken up-selfie, just because *LOL* (and yes i was sitting on the toilet ROFL, but no, i wasn't doing anything you don't want to know :p)

My very yummy (and large and super generous) temaki sushi (s) *yes i had two, shuttup!*! Seriously the tobiko *drool*.... It's like-10x the portion of how local sushi parlor would add! It's pretty much like a whole little package of tobiko (that they sell in Japanese supermarkets) dumped into the sushi! And the price's like, half of local sushi!

I saw this *___*

Attempted an #OOTD pic, but it was pretty hard because there was no full-body mirror in sight! Do you like my spikey dino jacket? LOL Dino Jacket : Milly Online Shop (Twitter), Grey Scarf : Payless, Cross Patterned Skirt : Gowigasa (online)

Also attempted some FOTD hahaha

We're off to today's adventure!

Baby Boy bundled up with three layers of clothes (oh, i was also wearing three layers of clothes on top of a body hugging jacket. So forgive me if i look like a stuffed sausages in my pictures, it was better than freezing to death -___-) in MTR station

It was still raining when we get there *and it was getting harder than just a drizzle T.T so we decked ourselves in raincoats-we bring raincoat everywhere we go now-and got lots sof stares from other visitors (who either locals or Mainland tourists because they all spoke Chinese). WHY??? JEALOUS MUCH? LOL*

This was taken later after we spent about half an hour shopping at the biggest (it's actually a few stores linked into one) souvenir shop ever! We waited for the rain to let up a bit. It might looked dark and all, but it was 11.30 AM!

Starting from the next day, most pictures are taken with hunny's NX300, but at Ocean Park we used my pinko instead because of the weather, won't want to ruin the exp camera so soon!

Panda!!!

More Pandas! They have sections of different animals, and in each attractions you'd find smaller stores selling the animals representations of the attraction. I think you can skip the smaller stores and go into this huge store (at the entrance) and get everything you want in one place

The crazy price of Ocean Park totally shocked me and made prices in Disneyland super cheap in comparison!

If you've read my haul post, you'd know that i bought that panda beanie&mitten set seen at the back, i was torn between the panda and the polar bear i wore here but the polar bear's head was quite heavy and hunny said the panda's cuter so we ended up with the panda. But seeing this pic, i also really like the polar bear >.< if only it wasn't so expensive, i'd get them both!

They also have the penguin one, but i was not very attracted to it. But must cam-whore with it, naturally!

Unique cashier booth

Super cute biscuits

So so cute!

I didn't buy any :p, i don't think it'd be very nice. Cute things rarely are

Off to the first attraction

I remembered this blue-hued (because of the acrylic surrounding it) elevator! It's one thing that i remember vividly of the previous visit to Ocean Park when i was... 12. LOL. But i remembered the elevator to be super long! Does my memory play a trick on me? Because the elevator's just normal length haha (i just checked the website, apparently there IS another elevator : the second longest outdoor elevator in the world! I'm not crazy after all!)

Welcome to the Grand Aquarium!

Can you spot the turtle?

Baby Boy's squeamish like me so he refused to touch the sea creatures (even though he never have any problem with snakes, tigers, alligators, etc!) so he just posed in front of the touch-pool :p

Colorful fishies

Is it so wrong to feel hungry whenever i see gigantic crabs?

And octopuses too

The mesmerising jelly fishes!

Out-of-this-worldly

Piranhas feeding

Poor hunny and Baby Boy wanted to make the souvenir coins but all the machines were either broken or the attendants didn't have any coins to exchange! But later on they got one :)

Errrr, i see a full length mirror and couldn't help but do an OOTD selfie *LOL*. Only i can make myself look less like a stuffed sausage. Boots' online also, bought at A's little sister's online shop (the one i bought for our Europe trip last year but arrived more than a month after the trip *LOL*, finally got to wear it. It's very nice looking, but unfortunately quite painful to wear all day long!)

When i see cute stuffs...I'm pretty sure i set a very bad example, because right after a Chinese girl saw me and immediately copied -___- (no, we didn't buy the headband, it's hardly useable!)

Ocean Park's located in the mountains, complete with the rain and wind... it was freezing! Well, it was like 8 degrees (celcius), but that's very cold for tropical creatures okay!!!

Next up : Hong Kong Jockey Club Sichuan Treasures

There were only two types of animals in this area

The golden monkeys (that they claimed as the "cousins of Sun Wu Kong" LOL)

And giant pandas. No, the panda's not dead, it was simply napping *LOL*

We always took pictures of the entrance AFTER we went in *LOL*

Cute panda VW!

Next to it was this interesting looking area that looked like an attraction of some sort

But apparently it was a train to take us to the higher part of the Park (i guess you either take this, or the elevator, or the cable car)!

It was guised as a submarine *LOL*

Ocean Express Summit Station (yes, after i learned the name it was obvious that it was a normal train and not an attraction *LOL*)

Can't blame my pinko for the blurry-ness, the "submarine" was riding fast and even NX300 cannot avoid taking blurry pics! LOL

They darkened the windows and put screens on the roof, playing a show that made you feel like you're underwater

Hunny and his glows-in-the-dark Skechers

The dropped us off at the Rainforest!

Honestly, being humans that hails from tropical countries (with rainforests everywhere), the concept didn't interest us. But food does!

Got ourselves some yummy ribs and fries! Baby Boy ate like, a portion of the fries (and he kept on eating that he gained a lot of weight after this trip *LOL*)! Poor hunny wanted a turkey leg (that he's been craving ever since our visit to Universal Studio years ago!) but they kept on running out of turkey legs that day! He got his fix two days later in Disneyland though!

I'm still not a huge fan of ribs, but i guess when it's very cold and you're very hungry-eveything tastes heavenly!

With his new toy haha

Baby Boy wanted to ride that, but it being a ride that can be found in any amusement parks locally and it being super cold-i just couldn't risk him getting a cold!

It was pretty funny seeing tropical style decor in such a cold place

Crazy panda on the loose

OMG, stuffed sausage -___-

One thing that i hated about the local/mainland tourist (i'm pretty sure it was the latter because Hong Kongers-even though they are not the friendliest, they are also not rude. Most of them anyway) was the fact that they have no sense of the concept "Public things". They kept on hogging (or let their kids hog) stuffs and didn't care if the line's getting super long! It really was getting on my nerves. Hong Kong-ers queues mostly, so i'm pretty sure they were Mainland tourists

Baby Boy had to waited for a long long long time until the annoying kids (who went for i dunno, 20 rounds or something) are done. Even then his daddy would only let him play like, three times in consideration of other people in the line (which is the right thing to do!)

I think it's the North Pole Encounter

Baby Boy with a gigantic Eskimo. Really, i'm getting so annoyed at the darting eyes -___-

Yeah... We realized later we didn't get to the penguin side *LOL*. Baby Boy announced that he was hungry and hunny saw a restaurant nearby (called The Tuxedo Restaurant) and decided to have late lunch there

Their concept was "dining with penguins" (and that's when we realized we didn't go to the penguin place *LOL*), what i didn't expect was... That the temperature of the very very nice (and expensive looking, and really is expensive hahaha) restaurant to be close to those of the penguin's. LOL, okay i'm exaggerating, but i really hoped it would be warm inside the restaurant, but instead it was FREEZING!!!

Yeah, we really dined with the penguins. I mean they also dined next to us *LOL*

CCCOOOLLLDDDD

They have regular sizes and family sizes (which they claimed to suit 2-3 persons), and since it's cheaper to get a family sized dish (instead of getting more than one dish) we ordered a family size scallop angel hair pasta

And they arrived like this. The expression on my face was genuine, just... re-enacted for a pic hahaha

Seriously though, it was more suitable for 4 persons at least. In the end, since we still got a lot left, and the fact that we paid IDR 450.000 (for one pasta and one coffee haha) we completely forgot to be shy and asked to ta bao-ed them. Apparently if you want to bring your leftover food home in Hong Kong, they'd give you a paper/ plastic bowl (a nice one) and you can help yourself. Btw, they pasta was VERY VERY GOOD. Baby boy had two helpings and swallowed ALL of the scallops you see in the first pic. I was quite full from all the fries and ribs, but after i had a mouthful... yeah, i ended up having a lot some too. Baby Boy later had the left over for dinner, so i can safely say he finished more than half of the gigantic portion himself *LOL*. It's so good (probably the best pasta i've ever had wtf) it's almost worth the crazy price. Almost.

Then we're out braving the cold again (not that it was any warmer inside the restaurant anyway)

Baby Boy spotted this jet coaster and said he wanted to ride it. Since i am training him to be more open to new things and not be so timid about things he's not used to, i decided to brave the long long queue (it's nothing compared to Disneyland's queue, btw) to play with him. My cowardly hunny said it was too cold to play jet coaster and refused to ride with us, CHICKEN!!! The jet coaster was quite thrilling (for kids, it was so so for me) and probably the scariest thing Baby Boy had ever rode, but he was having a lot of fun! Btw, this is a very pretty candid picture! Props to hunny, for once i do not look crazy in a candid photo (even though you can't see my face here)

Ended up playing two more rides, one i had to go alone because Baby Boy was too short (they took it seriously, even bringing a gigantic ruler to measure the kids!)-the ride (Rev Booster) was crazy fast and i had to clutch the safety bar like crazy because i felt like i was going to be thrown off!!!. The other one all three of us went together (Whirly Bird) and it was faster and scarier than i initially thought (but again, Baby Boy was being a total trooper, despite the fact that he lost one of his shoes (it dropped off) just before the ride started!)

There were some carnival games there and one of them is bursting balloon (that's why Baby Boy was covering his ears in this pic). Baby Boy kept on asking to play but the carnival games were crazy expensive, plus we're totally hopeless when it comes to this kind of games! So i had to distract him turned him away

And we went down from the top part of the park using a cable car

I think this is the first time Baby Boy ever took a REAL cable car (and not the kiddie one he rides at malls)

The cable car dropped us off at Old Hong Kong Area (if you're visiting Ocean Park and on a tighter bugdet, go to this area for food! There are a lot of side stall style foodcarts selling yummy stuffs!), and the boys immediately drawn to the souvenir coin pressing machine (that works, for once)

Cute, olden days style decor

May i repair your shoes, sir?

Again with the no sense of queuing tourists. I was obviously taking pictures of Baby Boy, and as soon as they saw me doing it, a Chinese mother shoved her daughter to take pictures as well. I had to crop the picture until so small to crop them out (even so you can still see half of her). WTF. ARGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! I HATE inconsiderate people!!!!!!!

Lots of old style props to cam-whore with!

Wanna buy some veggies from this petite panda? (HEY, i am PETITE compared to regular pandas okay!!! Tiny even @___@)

How do you afford that expensive (faux) leather jacket and camera just by selling veggies, sir?

Olden style train compartment

We have one that still works (and open for tourists) in Ambarawa!

More carnival games booths, oh no... Hunny had to pee (he went like, 20 times in a day in Hong Kong, i guess it's his karma for making fun of my mum) so i used Baby Boy as a prop around the booths because they are so vintage looking and attractive!

After i snapped this, i turned around and almost walk into a male attendant that materialized out of nowhere, soundless. I almost had a heart attack -___-

Waaa, this picture so convincing, yes? Like we went back in time or something (except for Baby Boy's way-too-modern backpack and sneakers)

Now you know what i mean with us not being able to say no to him? I did force him to play the "Sure win" game, take it or leave it (so we won't be deliberately throwing money away)

This is creepy, don't you think? Did they really use that kind of device for perming back in the day??? Looked more like an electric chair to me

He got the medium prize (thank God, how were we supposed to bring back a HUGE bus shaped plushie if he won the jumbo prize?) pffffftttt, what's a boy to do with a fluffy, baby pink bear? (Nothing, he just left it in my room, that is)

It was closing already, there were a few other attractions we didn't get to see (and we didn't even get to watch any shows *LOL*) but it was a pretty satisfying visit to Ocean Park

The last attraction before the park closes : Symbio

It's apparently the world's first 360 degrees water screen show which is not dissimilar to Sentosa's dancing fountain show

Yeah, the fire effects were pretty impressive, and we kept on yelling "MORE MORE" because the crazy fire made us felt warm for a few seconds *LOL*

Baby Boy, of course, clasped his hands to his ears in the entire show, but at least he didn't try to run away (like at Disneyland's fireworks show *LOL*)

Then it was time to go back to the hotel

Last pic at the entrance, because we're always skipping entrance on the way in-due to excitement!

We stopped by at Sasa on the way back (i marathon-shopped for 30 mins while my boys sat around eating cookies waiting for me. Thank God for sofas they provided for the miserable men in that particular branch-i should've taken pictures and tagged them). Way too tired to look for food so we took the easy way out-pre-packed meals from 7-Eleven across the hotel! Hunny also used their stove to heat up the left over pasta for Baby Boy (i offered him the rice but he wanted the earlier pasta instead *LOL*, that boy really knows nice and expensive foods now...) there!

Hmmmm i seriously love 7-Eleven's pre-packed meals! Yummy, dirt cheap and super filling! My fave kind of food hahaha

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