Our Third Anniversary-The Peak in Hong Kong

June 30, 2010

Cafe Deco at The Peak

What an amazing night we had! Calvin had a date planned for our anniversary and had been telling me about it for the last week and a half! Well, when I say telling me about it, he had told me that he had planned a date, but wouldn't tell me what we were going to do.

On Wednesday, our anniversary, Calvin had to attend a seminar in the afternoon after his classes, so we couldn't do everything that we had planned. We were going to take a trip to the Hong Kong temple, but that will have to be a trip for another day. When Calvin got done with his seminar, we headed out! I curled my hair (Calvin has been saying he wanted me to wear my hair that way for a while...it only lasted about 20 minutes, haha, the humidity doesn't really do my hair any favors) and we got a little dressed up and then rode the bus down to Central.

From there, we walked a little way up a hill and bought tickets for the Peak Tram (click there if you want to see the website). It was really neat! We rode this tram up the mountain and it was really steep!! Once we got to the top, this was the view:

Here we are waiting to get on the tram. There were a lot of people there! It is a very popular attraction.

I don't know if you can tell, but this is one point when the tram was going up part of the mountain that was so steep! Maybe you can get a little bit of an idea from this picture.

Here we are! We made it to the top! There were these decks where you could go out and look over the city. It was so pretty and felt really nice because it was cooler up there!



After we looked out over the city, we walked away from the tourist-type attractions and shops, and took this little path that went along the other side of the mountain. If you didn't know it was there, you would totally miss out on another amazing view! That side of the mountain feels so much different, because when you look out, you mostly see just the ocean, still some buildings, but not many. Calvin took me down there to show me this place in the rock where a general authority carved in the date when Hong Kong was opened for missionary work. When Calvin was on his mission, they brought the missionaries here when they came to Hong Kong and when they left Hong Kong. It was getting dark, so it took us a little while to find the spot, and Calvin kept asking me what time it was.



Here is Calvin next to the date.


We also got to see this really pretty waterfall. It was hard to get a good picture because it was getting dark.


Happy Anniversary! Three years!

We then started heading back toward the peak tram and shopping area. Calvin was asking me where I wanted to go to dinner, and I was like, I thought you had this planned? He was telling me, well, I thought we'd take a bus back down and then find a place to eat. He said, let's get some ice cream cones from McDonalds over here (they have them all over the place!) and then we'll go find a place to have dinner. I said, let's try to find a place up here to eat (there were some restaurants) and he said, well, they'll be pretty expensive up here. I agreed, so we went to find McDonalds. Well we walk into this mall type place and are heading up to McDonalds, and Calvin turns and walks into this really nice restaurant. He had made reservations there 2 weeks before! (Then I realized why he kept asking me what time it was) It was really neat. It had these huge windows looking out over the city. Calvin had made the reservations to make sure we had a table by the window. It was amazing. The pictures really can't even capture it.

We had some really good fruit drinks, Camden had chicken nuggets and french fries, Calvin had some pasta and I had a pizza (can you tell we were craving some food from home!?). It was all very good. Calvin really surprised me and we had a great time. I did take some video and I will try to get that loaded, it doesn't seem to be working right now. It was a great night; thank you Calvin for a great night and an amazing 3 years!