Festive Fun!

Merry (belated) Christmas all! We've been having lots of festive fun here in Hong Kong despite having to work! We get the standard holidays here - Christmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years day but have been working in between. This hasn't been too bad and it means we've saved our annual leave for adventures - in a couple of weeks we're going to Taipei, in February we go to Bangkok and then back to the UK in March, exciting! We get three days off in February for Chinese New Year and we were quite fancying jetting off somewhere but flights are £££ and it seems it's rainy season at any beach resorts where the flights are reasonably priced! I'll keep an eye out for any good last minute deals but it's more than likely we'll just stay here - should be some good fireworks at least and I'm happy knitting.... might have to actually get some food in though as a lot of places close up!

On the Friday before Christmas we went to a tram party! A group of us in work decided to hire one and continue the office christmas party well into the evening... I was put in charge of 'decorations' which resulted in everyone being given a reindeer antler headband / santa hat / similar on arrival.

Stephen enjoying tram fun

It was a brilliant night, so so much fun - lots of beer was drunk, christmas tunes played and it just felt so nice and christmassy! After the tram we went for a chinese (naturally), there was 30 of us spread across 3 tables and we left it to the locals to order.... the majority of food was tasty and normal looking but a plate of goose legs did appear!!

Ah look, drunk westerners drinking cans of beer from the 7/11 in their chinese tea cups in a restaurant!!

The following day we were slightly worse for wear but I was super excited to get up and go to the cinema...

Ahh LES MIS!!!

I very much enjoyed the film (not entirely convinced about Russell Crowe's singing mind), Stephen less so!

On Sunday we thought we'd carry on the Christmas party spirit and go for a few drinks (not that we need an excuse!).

I love Happy Hour Cocktails!

We befriended some random Australian guys in the next bar (their wives were working in the IFC Mall as bunny girls in the christmas show.... they asked for directions to the IFC and bought us two rounds of shots in return??) - they worked in the mines and were clearly loaded!  

Quick bit of sustenance at a Canadian hot dog bar! 

Hot dog bar! 

Amazing hot dog!! It was like Subway so doesn't come with mayo and other manky stuff unless you want it to - yumm!! Added bonus that they do sweet potato fries :)

And another quick drink before we headed home (it was a school night after all) - the only place I've found in HK so far that has the full range of Rekorderlig 

It also now has a tuckshop with 'loads of proper english sweets' AMAZING!! What more could you want from a pub but cider and sweets? Also apparently does a good pie, which we must try some time.

I'll leave you with some pictures I took from the bus on the way home of pretty christmas lights on tall buildings :)