Today we had another market day: Bird market, flower and plant market, live fish market and finally heading back to Ladies Market. As it was Saturday, the streets were packed. I ended up getting a foot massage (offered on every street corner) while the girls got their hair done. All these services are very cheap! Now we're heading off to Emil's party... It was an amazing party with people from around the world, all of Emil's friends and business associates. We ...

Today, we went on a shopping trip with Mia and Daniela across the border to China. We had received our China visa last night (in our Swiss passports). We met at the metro station Tsim Sha Tsui and took the train to Lo Wu, then walked through immigration over to Shenzen, where the big shopping malls are. There you can buy copies of luxury articles quite cheap (purses, watches, etc). Some are bad imitations, eg the Uggs were cheaply made and no real fur used. Howev...

We went on our first shopping tour on Nathan Road and ended up getting foot massages in a sketchy back alley. We were looking at a closed foot massage shop when asked to come to a different place, up through a dark hallway around corners... but they had free Internet. They did not speak any English at all except pointing at me "mommy?" We got our feet washed in brown tea and massaged ruthlessly. After that we took the Star Ferry to get across to Hong Kong Island...

We arrived last night in Hong Kong and were picked up by the hotel limo. We stayed at the InterContinental, directly in the harbor with beautiful view of Hong Kong. The next day, we woke up quite early and went swimming in the hotel pool and jacuzzi. The breakfast buffet was amazing, I've never seen something like it. After, we walked over the Ocean Centre where Emil has his offices, in middle of a huge shopping mall. He helped us to arrange the China visa and c...