I had played a 3500 hand session until 3am the night before, so once again it was hard to get out of bed in time for breakfast. All I could manage was 2 bowls of cereal and some yoghurt, which I was severely regretting after we left our room and got onto the 1 hr ferry ride back to Hong Kong. It was a million times rougher than when we came out the other side and I was feeling really ordinary. I almost had to reach for a sick bag but kept it down. I kept myself busy taking awesome photos with Andys camera while he blogged. Once we got through customs we had another excellent feed at a place in the ferry terminal, which I badly needed. I got thai noodle soup with sausages or something like that. We got a taxi to the Langham hotel, which was great. Mongkok is the suburb we are in and it is apparently the most densely populated place on earth with 131,000 people per square kilometre. The streets were obviously packed, with lots of shops crammed next to each other selling everything you could imagine (we saw a shop that seemed to only be selling ladders?).

Once we got into our room we tested out the internet connection then went to the 41st floor which contained the health centre. It was very impressive. We firstly did a gym session while looking out over the city, and got some great photos. After that we headed to another part of the floor and went in the heated pool. Andy and I had contests over who could swim under water the longest. After the pool we headed into the locker rooms which are awesome in themselves. There is a guy who works full time in there, just doing stuff like replacing towels and drying the floor after people get out of the shower. It contains lockers, showers, changing areas, a part with mirrors which has sinks and hair dryers and shaving gear, a 40 degree spa, a sauna and a steam room. Also you can just put on a robe and walk around which is cool.

I didnt know there was a difference between a sauna and a steam room. I thought a sauna was sposed to be steamy. Anyway we gave it a go and lasted about 2 minutes. It was just a really unpleasant heat, not good at all. We hit the steam room after that which was slightly more bearable. At least its kinda a nice heat. We stayed in there about 5 minutes.

We headed back to our room for an online session and got room service, and around 8pm we went to the markets, firstly the “temple street markets” and then the “ladies markets”. Which are supposed to be the best and busiest markets in Hong Kong. It really reminded me of the Bangkok markets, selling the same kind of stuff anyway. One massive difference between them is that they do not seem to hassle you to buy stuff here like they do in thailand. The shop owners pretty much just stand around and let you look at stuff. There is still the somewhat painful negotiating though. I bought a poker belt and some bracelets, and Andy got a hoodie, underwear and a couple of T shirts. No doubt we will be heading back over the next couple of days to get more stuff. We bought some cokes and stuff from the 7/11 and then came back home, where I played another session and Andy went to bed.