Macau

After HK was Macau and the one word to describe it, pretty; both the place and its people. Kebetulan the hotel we were staying at (pretty rooms too!) were housing lots and lots of dancers/models for a show so pretty people everywhere we turned;)

There wasn't much to do there except for gambling, shopping and eating because that's pretty much all there is but you know, except for gambling, shopping and eating are our fave pastimes anyway. Lots of casinos, hotels, malls and shops, foodie places and the most distinctive, pawn shops. I suppose lots of people pokai at the casinos which is why pawn shops are thriving over there.

I even got into a casino, for the first time in my life :D The minimum age was just 18 so no problems there, even though the guards at the door asked me my age before I entered. They didn't do that to anyone else, so yeah it's probably cuz of my angelic, fresh-faced, boyish look. Ahem. Jac and I didn't gamble though since the minimum bets were all like 300 bucks so we just stood around and tried to figure out the rules for all the games.

We did a bit of sightseeing, Dad did lots of gambling, Mom went shopping and we just went on a picture-taking frenzy. Just the usual. Except that Dad was ecstatic cuz he didn't have to accompany us while we did our shopping like in HK. Instead, he went and earned us more shopping $$$! :D

I have absolutely no idea what this statue person is supposed to be doing but I was attempting a porno interpretation of it. This was taken at the very famous cathedral thingy where you had to climb hundreds of stairs to reach the top and my sisters and I never even reached the halfway point. We kept stopping to take pics while the rest of the group has already reached the top, exclaim their amazement, climb back down and announce their hunger, meaning no more pics and dinnertime.
Pork chop burger! I was there for one and a half day and in total I had 3 meals containing pork chops! Is that like their food staple??
Macau is so picturesque you can practically camwhore anywhere on the streets. Even the back streets were scenic. No garbage overflowing onto the streets, no restaurants washing their dishes and therefore flooding the whole alley, no druggies hiding behind bushes. Inspiring!
Me doing my best classic prostitute-in-a back-alley shot. This would work sooo much better had I been in a cheong sam-ish outfit.

And then the next day before we went off to Shenzen, we went to The Venetian, which was a mini version of the one in Las Vegas (that's what the parents told us, they're the ones who've been there, not us). Everything was super pricey so it wasn't a good shopping trip, it was more towards sightseeing. And because it's Christmas in TWO days.... Merry Christmas bitches!