I woke up at 7:30 am and just layed in my bed really contemplating going, then I fell asleep for about an hour longer, till 8:30. I decided it was time to get going, so I got on my computer and IM'd people for a while untill it was 9:30, undressed, showerless I decided that I would go, so I threw some clothes on, grabbed my sack pack and passport, filled up my water bottle and headed out to meet everyone. Even though somebody we knew had a detailed map of where to go, we decided to fallow these other two French people that I've never met. First we get off two stops before we're suppose to, just because we didn't want to get split up, but half of us only got off the train so it was my group and the two french leaders. As soon as we get out of the metro onto the streets they turned around three or four times, then we started to walk towards the pier. Walking there, we past the two stations where we could have gotten off at and that just made me more angry. We finally get on the ferry and I started to get excited, everybody was taking pictures and wondering how much money we were going to blow.
We got there about noonish so it wasn't time to gamble yet. Instead, we head north to one of the fortresses. This trip was also plagued with bad directions, but thanks to McDonalds
we were able to get back on the right course. McDonalds was great by the way, we were so far off the beaten track that I'm pretty sure the workers there have never seen a white person so the whole kitchen staff was staring. Then we got to the foot of the very high hill and started walking up, and then walked up some stairs, and more stairs. Once we got to the top the view was impressive. You could see the whole island, but for the most part, you could only see shacks and a very depressing contrast to what I thought was a nice, fancy place. We took a few pictures, sat down for a bit and then we were ready to find our way to the Vinetian. We just rode a couple buses to get there, one that was free. The Venetian was huge, we walked around a little part of Venice, complete with a river, gondala, and a singing captain. There were alot of stores but we were just looking. We got to the casino floor and I've never seen so many slot machines and card tables in my life. People were just throwing $3,000 on the tables and not caring. People were carrying stacks of money around. I tried my hand at some roulette, I bet $20 and lost almost immediately, and then we got these super cool membership cards with our pictures on them. I took mine holding a fat stack of $10s and $20s with a $500 bill on the outside. After that we were getting hungry again so we headed to another casino, The Sands.
I ordered some shrimp and pork with spicy vermicilli, delicious as always, and even though it was at a casino restaurant it was fairly cheap. Christophe and Clement could have done better with their orders, since they accidently got pork stomach, some goopy noodles, and chinese stem sauce. Ordering awful food is always a possibility here. Chris paid for my bill since all I had was $100s and $500s, high roller I am. So it was back to gambling so I can pay Chris back for my meal and essentially get it for free. I went to a roulette table and stuck in a $50 and lost it real fast, but I couldn't stop and put in a $100 and for a while I stayed around the $130 mark till I went on a run and got $225, exactly enough to break even and pay Chris the $75 for my dinner. I printed my ticket and we got out of there.
There was still so much to see. We walked through the Lisboa, which has the most LED lights on a building in the world! That one was really nice. Then we looked at the Wynn and it was the most fanciest thing I have ever seen, and it came with an unusually overpowering smell of Dove handsoap. That was the last one and we had to run back to the bus to make it to the ferry terminal. We literally ran, and once we got on there we waited another ten minutes. When we arrived at the terminal, it hit me, it is one o clock in the morning and I still have an hour long ferry ride, and another thirty minute trip back to the dorms. With that in my mind I thought we would be able to get on a ferry right away. Couldn't be more wrong. We had to wait another hour and half. Desperate, dillusional, and wishing we were still in the casinos, we bought a few beers to lessen the pain of waiting. Buzzed and oblivioius, we stumbled onto the ferry and immediately passed out. I woke up groggy and irritated, good thing there was a taxi waiting for us, one of the girls handed him a directions for the university that were in chinese and we speed away. I got front seat, which is prolly the most scary thing you can do in Hong Kong. These drivers and professionals, we should have hit so many cars, but he got us there safely.
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