The Family Comes to Hong Kong!!

After a day of studying, I met up with my family at their hotel in Yau Ma Tei. They were staying at the City View hotel. From the lobby it looked like a pretty spectacular place! We walked around for a little while in the city and ended up eating at Burger King and then I took them into Mong Kok to do a little shopping. My brother had never been there so I am glad that I was able to find something new for him to do.

I did a little bit of shopping and my family tried to gauge prices. After an hour or two with them, we decided on a time and place to meet the next day and then split ways. They went back to their hotel and I went back to campus.
The next day (Sunday the 12th), I met them at 9am at the Tsim Sha Tsui MTR station so that we could head on our way down to grab a Ferry over to Macau. We made our way down to the Ferry, bought our tickets cleared immigration and then got on the boat at around 10am.

We got into a taxi as soon as we cleared immigration in Macau and headed for the Macau Tower. We entered the tower, registered ourselves (my brother and I) for the Bungy Jump and then quickly gave our stuff to our parents so that we could head upstairs to get ready. We went all the way up to the 64th floor and registered our names upstairs where they gave us a Macau Bungy tshirt and asked us to change into it. We put our stuff in a locker and then went out to get harnessed. After they put on our gear we went to the holding area and watched a guy in front of us jump off the building. I can honestly tell you that I was not afraid. I was simply really, really, really excited. I feel like that could be an issue if I am not afraid of jumping off a building.

While we were waiting, people would walk by us and would be excited for us and tell us how afraid they would be to do this and would give us a thumbs up. It was like we were famous. It was pretty funny. I was called in first and they had me sit on a metal table and hooked me up to the bungy cables. And led me over the edge where we took some pictures. They counted down from 5 and then I just sort of…jump/fell off the building. It was the most spectacular feeling. I didn’t scream or anything I just sort of… went and had the biggest smile on my face. I was so excited. After falling about 233 meters, the rubber bands pulled me back up and I pulled the rope that was attached to my feet so that I could switch to a sitting position and I was lowered down to the ground

I absolutely highly recommend anyone to go bungy jumping. It is one of the most spectacular feelings in the entire world. I can’t wait to do it again.

As they were unhooking me, I asked the ground staff how many times they had been bungy jumping and the one guy said that he had gone over 900 times! HOLY SMOKES. Amazing. I ran over to my parents and gave them a hug and then we waited for my brother to jump. He screamed on the way down (for kicks and giggles)and after he was unharnessed, I ran over to give him a high five and we took a picture together. We went back upstairs to look at the pictures and the video and all, took pictures all over the tower, and were asked by several people to take pictures with them. So funny. :)

After we got our stuff, we went down to the lower observation deck where we stood on a glass floor. My brother couldn’t even stand on it because he was more afraid of it. It was pretty funny..he could sky dive and bungy jump but he can’t stand on a glass floor 61 stories high. Haha. But really though, it was scary.

While we were wondering around the observation area, we saw a big group of people standing near one area of the glass window. We saw/heard them take in a big collective breath and then make this scream like gasp together as the next person went bungy jumping. It was pretty hysterical.

We went back downstairs and then made our way to the Wynn Casino. We played penny slots and then headed back to the Ferry Terminal so that we could get back to Hong Kong and I could get some work done.

We got back into Hong Kong, I bid them farewell and made my way back to campus where I met some friends for dinner and then started to do some work for my exams.