The day my boy finished his exam, we went to the only Mambo I've been to this year so far (amazing, right?!) got good and tipsy, went home and slept for two to three hours, and then hopped onto a plane to Macau for a holiday before I flew back to London!
Being the ditz that I am, I only realized two days ago when I was in the midst of uploading the photos onto facebook, that I had lost all the pictures from the first day/night in Macau, as well as some of the second day's pictures!!!! Such a retard... so yea, all our touristy sight-seeing pictures are gone, but here's what's left anyway!
We stayed at the Venetian and it did not fail us :) They have 7 swimming pools, if I recall correctly! And the place looked so amazingly grand. Dee and I think of all we've seen so far, the pools are second only to the Wynn at Las Vegas which we stayed at Easter Break last year.
We took a trip down to Zhu Hai, which is a city in China right next to Macau. As in, you walk through the Macau immigration and then you're at the Zhu Hai immigration, and once you clear them both..... voila! Actually wanted to go to HK but the swine flu had JUST broke out at that time... we weren't worried about actually contracting the swine flu.. but the boys were worried I wouldn't be able to clear customs when I came back to London. In retrospect, I wish we had just took the ferry down to HK anyway because it turned out that London's immigration couldn't care any less about where I'd been, hur hur.
Anyway, Zhu Hai was kind of disappointing. The boys ended up playing this game where they would try to find uglier & uglier things for each other to buy and then wear to school the following term, raising the stakes as they went along. An example: Max's ridiculous glittery pink fake Birkenstock. Did I mention that the Venetian is SO EFFICIENT that the free shuttle bus bringing you to Zhu Hai comes every five minutes, all day long? Insane!
The food, was super duper duper cheap and quite delicious though :) Pig ears & Zha Jiang Mian. Like 1 SGD per dish, I think? We ate so much. And then went for cheap HK desserts after. So yea, that was the highlight of Zhu Hai, hur hur.
"Have you had close contact with pig within the past 1 week?"
Headed back to Macau and had one of my infamous laughing fits. (When I say infamous, I mean that only those close enough to me get the 'pleasure' of repeatedly experiencing it. Depending on their moods, it either amuses them to no end, or annoys the living hell out of them.) Anyway, the point is, that I was laughing/gigging/squirking until I was on the verge of tears because it was so damn tiring but it so happened that this was one of those days where my dearest darling boys found it mad amusing and wanted to keep me going at it. And when I'm in those kinds of moods, ANYTHING makes me laugh. I mean anything. "Hey look, sky!" can cue uncontrollable laughter :/
No cameras allowed at the tables, so this, of course, is me camwhoring in the mirror, hurhur. We spent the rest of the night in the casino playing blackjack21 and SicBo (Da Xiao). And then ordered room service with good food and the best damn service ever, ever ever.
Gambled till almost 4am the previous night so by the time we woke up, we barely made it for lunch hour. Wanted to try Roka (Macau) because we love it in London, but only the bar was open as the kitchen was under construction, so we ate at another Japanese restaurant in the Venetian instead. Can you make up the name of the restaurant from the picture? I can't remember haha!
Mad expensive but the food was pretty much crap so I have no idea what the boys are smiling about (I forced them, HAHA) and that is Mama's favourite dish (Onsen Tamago).
One of the rooftop-ish balconies in the Venetian with an amazing view.
Max is amazing at jumpshots.
Me? Not so. All my jumpshots failed!
Went to play some golf after that (the Venetian has it's own golfing services, can you believe it?! the place was just absolutely massive!!!! I thought that it was even bigger and better/newer than the one in Vegas!!)
Halfway through we somehow got distracted and just started playing rubbish golf, and then suddenly we stopped playing golf completely and the boys just
They even brought their game into the..... waters? What is it called on a golf course? The lake-looking waters on a golf course? Anyway, yes, they brought their game into that.
Went to chill out at the pool side after that. The cabanas are so pretty and even equipped with flat screen TV, awesome :)
Isn't this hilarious? My godbrother is a 'tard but I love him anyway.
Pina coladas (which were x100stronger than usual for some strange reason), chick lit, and hands down my two favourite boys in the entire world.
Back to our suite to wash up.
The boys headed down to the casino again whilst I did a bit of shopping. Mad many shops (i think 400+ almost 500?) inside the Venetian.. including intl superbrands like Tiffany's, Bvlgari and Marc Jacobs to local favourite like Izzue, I.T. and Chocolate. I didn't buy anything for myself (yay, me!) but just shopped for the boys & my brothers & Jia.
Then met up with the boys for dinner at Morton's of Chicago.
I think we ordered too much... cold seafood platter, crab cakes, and way too many side orders (king crab legs, lobster, fries, mash, asparagus eew). And then of course, our mains... the steaks were huge.
Us :)
Headed back up to the room for a rest because we were mad bloated.
Monkeying around the room.
And then needless to say it was back down to the casino where we played for about four or five hours and then had supper in one of the chinese restaurants in the middle of the casino floor that was open 24/7. These are our omg-damn-dejected-from-losing-s0-much-money faces. And then went to sleep super duper late again.
Headed down to the AJ Hackett Macau tower the next day because the boys wanted to bungy jump. (dee and i always bought fluffy at the toys'r'us there)
Max getting suited up for his jump, and looking kind of scared :)
Waiting for Max's turn, nothing to do= camwhore.. well just me, Daren took a nap.
And then it was Daren's turn.
Seriously, just standing on the edge (which had railings) scared the shit out of me, so respect to both my boys :)
Enjoying a beer by the seaside after their jump.
And then we headed down to the food street. No idea what Daren is doing, and don't mind me, when it comes to food I get very kanchiong & unglam. Outdoor food stand where we had octopus & curry fish balls, as well as chicken chop bun which was hella good.
Taiwanese beef noodles (damn shiok) and tan-tart!
xiao long bao, sharks fin noodles!
DAMN GOOD BUBBLE TEA.
Pig's ear salad, more curry fishballs at this cute little cafe where we also had honeymilk toast and pork chop buns etc!
Basically, in the span of one and a half hours, we ate curry fish ball, octopus sticks, pork chop buns, chicken chop buns, portuguese egg tarts, taiwanese beef noodles, xiao long bao, sharks fin noodles, hot&spicy szechuan noodles, bubble tea, pig's ears, honeymilk toasts... and I can't even remember what else. But very filling, and very yummy :)
Bit random but: waiting for transport from the venetian to the airport, and a funny menu with funny english offering "pigs BULLY with rice" haha
some final photos
So yea, that pretty much sums up the trip :) To be honest, I'm quite sad I lost the pictures from the first day because it had all our sight-seeing stuff (even though we're lazy and we don't sightsee all that much, but all the more making it more impt!!). We had some pretty nice shots taken at the various casino/hotels in Macau, St Paul's Cathedral, the city centre and the famous flat wall in Macau which I can't remember the name of anymore. Looks like we need to make another trip down to Macau to see the sights (hehe and to hit the casinos again!! although in all honestly, i am pretty addicted but i can see gambling is really a lost cause, no win situation!!)
I'll leave you with a video of Daren bungy jumping:
And another super retarded one of them fighting over how to read the words on their bungy bangle (for the longest time ever). Highly amusing to me, because I love them both and I'm probably a retard too, haha, but yes, only watch this madness if you are very bored :)
And one of (also retarded) of them "preparing" for army by playing their game called "cover me" on the golf course in Macau.
