Bowling In Hong Kong.

With the summer holiday in full swing now, we are trying to make the most of our time here. Back in Myrtle Beach, we loved going bowling as a family, we have been wanting to bowl here in Hong Kong, we just haven't had the time to take advantage of the sport. Summer vacation provided us with the perfect opportunity to don some rented bowling shoes and to work on our spin. 

We were pleasantly surprised to see they had size 15 shoes for my husband to wear. We never know what to expect in an Asian country, but it seems like Hong Kong is equipped to rent out shoes for men with big feet!

We only bowled one game with only my husband breaking 100. The kids alternated between actually bowling the proper way and using a bowling ramp, which is an extra machine that helped them point the bowling ball in the right direction.

The kids were ecstatic to be bowling again. It's little things like these that make us feel like life here in Hong Kong is "normal" or at least more familiar to life back in the United States. Bowling for our family is an homage to what we would do back where my children call home. And for them, that is important.

Shopping Mall Ship.

When we first arrived in Hong Kong, my husband's new job took us on a tour of Hong Kong. We were shown the area of Whampoa Garden's and were surprised to see a giant ship on land, in the middle of high rise apartment buildings. We later discovered that the giant ship holds a shopping mall inside.

I am impressed with the variety of shops and restaurants that Whampoa Garden's has to offer. It has a very Western vibe to their restaurants... Outback Steakhouse, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, McDonald's, Kentucky Fried Chicken. But the apartment buildings that surround the giant ship are older and run down, with a very local feel to them. Somehow the restaurants and the movie theatre seem a bit out of place with the state of the apartment buildings that are above them.

We took a quick walk through the ship in search of Outback Steakhouse. We walked through the ground floor which holds a large department store in the ship, called Aeon. There are multiple levels to the ship, but we did not do too much exploring.