Saturday, December 10, 2016

Hong Kong Christmas





This is the new St. Regis Hotel under construction across the street from our building.  It is a Starwood hotel which is owned by Marriott.  The reddish colored building in the background is our office/church building.  You might see Gary looking out the window from our office on the 9th floor.  The picture below is the state of construction as of today.


We saw this Pizza Hut advertisement in the Subway.  I was particularly interested in the pork knuckles (bottom right).  All the restaurants have lavish diner offers for Christmas eve and Christmas day but the cost starts at $500HK per person (about $65US)

This is in front of a bank building by our office.

This is the largest fake tree we have ever seen.  And you have to feel it to know is's fake.  This picture and a few that follow are in a super nice mall by the International Finance Center which is the tall building you will see below.








Looking from Central back toward Wan Chai where our office is right by the building with the orange colored lights.  On the right side of that building (called Central Plaza) is the measly 50 story Marriott Renaissance Hotel.

The International Finance Center where the mall is.  This area of Hong Kong is called Central.  The tall building in the distance is in Kowloon where we live and is the tallest building in Hong Kong and the 9th tallest building in the world.  In the evening there are light displays all up and down the building.
The Hong Kong ferris wheel in Central.  In the middle it says "Happy Holidays" but you can't read it because it is too bright.

Some more Christmas lights on the buildings in Central.

The International Commerce Center building mentioned above.  It houses the highest hotel in the world on floors 102-118.  It is a Marriott Ritz Carlton hotel and very expensive.  Those little shrimpy buildings to the right are 70 story residential towers.

Not a clear picture but this is the same building as above with Hong Kong written in lights all down the side.  I don't know how they do this but it's pretty cool.

We took the ferry from Central (free to us old folks) to TST on our side of the harbor and walked home along the promenade which is a very pleasant walk on a cool evening.  It was about 70 degrees outside.

Some more buildings along our walk.  We often take this walk which is 1.1 miles.  Sometimes we'll walk there to get an ice cream cone and then walk back.  That way we don't feel guilty for eating ice cream.
Looking back at Central from our walk.

Part of the evening light show every night but hard to see.

More lights along the way.






MERRY CHRISTMAS!

You probably noticed the absence of any reference to the true Christmas in all the lights and decorations.  Of course, we always want to remember the true meaning of Christmas.  This is the manger scene in the entrance to our office building. Click on the link below to see some really good videos about Christmas: Short Christmas videos








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