Hong Kong Family Trip: Day 3 to Shenzhen

Date: 24th March 2011

We are travelling to Shenzhen today to meet up Grandma’s nephews and nieces. They are travelling from different parts of China to meet Grandma at Shenzhen for dinner. So nice and friendly of them!

Kimi at the Hotel room and our Breakfast time ~

After breakfast, we still have a bit of time before checking-out from the Hotel. So we walked to Causeway Bay for some quick shopping. As time was very limited, I ended didn’t get to buy anything here. I actually got a bit disappointed over this. But no choice, need to rush to Shenzhen already… Hope next time I can have more time for shopping :)

We took a cab from the hotel to ‘Luohu Station’ <罗湖站>. From ‘Luohu’, we took the train to ‘Hung Hom Station’ to access to Shenzhen. Very convenient! Just that we we need to be extra careful when we are walking to the Custom as we have a toddler and Grandma with us. We need to keep them by our side all the time as the place is very crowded with people. The whole journey takes around 2 hours. Not very long and not difficult…. Just like from Pontian travels to Singapore like that ~

Finally, we reached Shenzhen. We took a van from the Custom to our Hotel. We checked into the ‘Vienna Hotel (Fu Hua)’. Address: No.73 Fuhua Road, Futian District, Shenzhen, China. The room is so much bigger than the room we had in Hong Kong and the price is much more cheaper as well. We paid RMB 198 per room per night only. Very good deal! The hotel is clean and comfy as well. Kimi has more space to run around too...

After we rest for a while, Grandma’s nieces and nephews arrived. Ah Ma has a great chat with them and did not want to join us for the afternoon tea. So Hubby, Uncle and I walked out from the Hotel to find some light snacks before the dinner. We had a quick bite before met them up at the hotel again.

As we still have a bit of time before the dinner, so one of the Aunt suggested to bring me to ‘Dong Men Shopping Street’  <东门老街> to do some shopping. This is a very big place with loads of things to see… Too bad, we only have around one hour to spend here, so I don’t have much time to grab things here. Another disappointment as I only managed to buy 2 shirts here. There are sooOoo many shops which I have yet to explore! Well, I tell myself again, next time then….

It is dinner time!! We met up Grandma and the rest at the restaurant. We really had a very sumptuous meal!! They ordered a lot of food and all also very delicious. We enjoyed the food a lot!

The Yummy-Licious Dinner can be viewed at: HERE ~~

What a GREAT reunion for everyone!

Not to forget our Group Photo before we left the restaurant. Grandma had a good day today. She is very happy to see so many people came and met her up! Glad to see that ~

We walked back to our hotel. Kimi had a taste of riding on a bicycle on our way back to hotel. Haha, he didn’t even want to come down. When we carried him down from the bicycle, he was crying so pitifully…. But after a while, he was ok already and ran together with them.

Very fast, another day passed so quickly! After settling down Kimi at the hotel, Hubby slept with him, and I went out with one of the Aunts to the hair salon at around 10pm. To my surprise, the salons there mostly open for 24 hours! I had a relaxing shoulder massage after washing my hair at the salon. It only costs me RMB 20!! What a great deal! Haha… I enjoy it a lot ~ Shiok!