March 19 2014:
Today after breakfast we hopped on the Star Ferry and went to Kowloon. Hong Kong is an island, but Kowloon is attached to the mainland. First of all, we walked on the boardwalk of stars. There we saw the stars for Bruce Lee, Jackie Chan, and some other Chinese stars. After that, we went to the museum of Science. Inside, there's stuff on electricity, motors, food, and other. There was also a extra exhibition on dinosaurs so my brother and I went. He got a little scared though... After that, we went to the history of Hong Kong museum. That was really cool and there were so many things to see.
After lunch, we took the subway to a place called temple street, where there's apparently a market. Unfortunately, the market only works at night. W ended up going to Ladies market instead. It was a really great experience. There was this bag that I really like and the vendor said $259(Hong Kong dollars) and with some bargening, my dad brought it down to $120 which is only $17 Canadian. We also bargained for a spoon from $49 to $30. It's really cool because of the language barrier. The vendor put the price on a calculator then they'll say "for you, cheaper" and theymultiply the price by 0.8 or something like that. Then you have to say "No, lower" delete their number and punch in your own. Then they'll generally disagree and then you reach a consensus. It was really fun!
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