Victoria's Peak

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The cable car up was crazy steep and the building looked like they were at 30 degree angles.  A middle aged guy talked to us about where we were from and we told him about Semester at Sea.  He’d been to America a few times and said it was beautiful.  I thought that was interesting, because Hong Kong was seriously beautiful from the moment I arrived.  Awesome mountains, grass and trees everywhere, blue water, great sky.  The only ugly thing were the buildings.  Oh well.

 

I had gone over the longest bridge in the world on my way in, actually.

 

Anyway, we found our way up to the highest point we could get to on the peak and looked out.  We took some pictures and enjoyed the view and the calm and the night and the weather and each other’s company.  We passed the big heart where you can profess your love to someone and I wrote “I heart U SPENSE” on my hand.  He and I walked over to a corner of the balcony.  There was a couple behind him where the guy was all up ons the girl, with his mouth right in her ear and whispering to her.  I told him to check out his 6 o’clock and he said he saw it already, and just laughed.  I imitated it with him later to show Catie.  People probably thought we were crazy.  She joined us a little bit late because she couldn’t find her ticket.  She actually didn’t find it until much later; the lady just let her come up.  People always like her.

 

We got some candy at the candy shop.  I got exactly 100g so paid exactly Y19.9 or whatever the price was, which was sweet.  I wasn’t even trying to get that, it just happened.  I got some gummies which I split with Catie because she really likes them too.  We decided to look for a place with a nice window view but couldn’t really find much until a café.  They usually want you to buy something before you take a table, and Catie decided to be the sacrificial lamb this time since Spencer had bought some candy as well.  We saw a nicer balcony from the window and decided to go there… and felt kinda sorry that we had let her buy something without really getting much from it.  Not a big deal though.

 

We saw some drunken SASers on the balcony.  We actually didn’t know they were SASers at first, we thought they were just obnoxious Europeans or Americans of some sort.  It’s usually fun to talk to other Anglophone travelers but these guys turned us off immediately.  They cursed a lot and were extremely loud and had high whiny voices the way drunk girls in the movies and after-school specials do.  When they were done, they left all their beer and alcohol bottles sitting the ledge in the middle of this beautiful mountain with this beautiful view.  Again, we were embarrassed and ashamed to be a part of Semester at Sea with them.  We were all going to go help, but Catie had put everything in the trash by the time I finished taking my next picture or something.

 

There was one girl from HK on the pier with a bunch of her friends.  She looked over and I think saw that we were speaking English.  She looked back later and said, “Hello!”  I said hi and asked her what was up.  She said not much, and that she was from here/she was born here.  I asked, “Oh yeah, right here?”  And she said yes, she was local.  And I said, “Really local?  Were you born right here?”  And I pointed to the ground.  “You were born right here on this spot?”  She said “No, I wish!”  Then her friends were walking away, so she turned with them, then turned back to say goodbye and I said goodbye to her as well.