T3-B14

March 17 2014:
  Today was a really fun-packed day. We started off SUPER early (like 5:30) because we're all really jet-lagged and the time difference is really annoying. We got some breakfast at the hotel and then went and took the light city bus. The light city bus is one of 3 kinds of buses that you find in Hong Kong. It has a 16 person capacity and It's pretty tiny. We were supposed to take #56 but we ended up getting on bus #56A, which we thought would have been the same thing. It wasn't. But after a really speedy ride (and I mean really speedy, that thing was going so fast!) and asking some locals, we ended up getting to where we wanted to go, the base of the Victoria peak. From the base it was about a 3km hike. When we got up we had some ice cream, enjoyed the view, and then we bused back to the city in a double-decker bus. 
  Back in the city we did this thing called mid-level. It's a bunch of escalators that connect with overhead walkways that take you up this giant hill. Then, on your way down, there's a ton of touristy places to go to. We ended up missing most of them, but we ended up going to a temple for a religion that's a cross between Buddhism and Taoism and we went down Hollywood road, a.k.a. antique road. 
  Antique road was really cool. It was like a giant market. There were veggies carts, bakeries, fish shops, and meat shops. The meat shops sold everything, and I mean everything from every animal. I even saw a giant ox tail hanging from the side of the store and when a delivery truck came, it was carrying three whole pigs. 
  For lunch we went to this super popular place in IFC (international finance center) where we got steamed buns, dumplings, and this awesome jell-o cake thing. It was this orange colored gelatine with berries and flowers inside and it was really good.  After lunch, we came to the hotel on a tram, which was really fun to ride. After a quick break we went out to see the celebration of light. We got to the venue for the celebration and it begins. It was one of the saddest things I've ever seen. We expected fireworks or something like that, but all it was was spotlights and a couple lasers. We took a cab back to the hotel and I'm super tired and ready for a good night's sleep.