Yesterday, a group of us went out in Central to celebrate Halloween! I dressed up as a leopard :) We started off with dinner & happy hour in Soho and then ventured on over to LKF's (Lan Kwai Fong) Halloween street party.
*Anna G. & I dressed up as leopards :)
*Sara, Anna G., Kat, me, & Anna S.
Soho wasn't as crowded as I expected, but there was still quite a few Westerners dressed up. As we were walking to LKF, we saw a party bus filled with people in costumes & definitely wanted to be them at that point! It was impossible to get to LKF from Soho & everything was blocked off so street traffic wasn't effected. As soon as we approached LKF, it was pure insanity!! There were SO SO many people & announcements over an intercom kept repeating, "the police are now enforcing a one-way pedestrian flow throughout LKF" - it made me feel as if I was in a concentration camp, haha! The police strictly monitor the mass amount of people now because like 10 years ago on Halloween, 20 people were killed after being crushed by the crowd, yikesss! Most of the clubs were charging a $25-45 USD cover charge, & we definitely weren't interested in paying that. It was a good thing we went to Soho first :) Another thing that made me mad was how many little kids were in LKF. This is not a place for children, especially when there are thousands of drunken people walking around - take them home & put them to bed, geez!!! Halloween in LKF was definitely an experience, and I'm glad I got to witness the craziness, but I definitely wouldn't do it again, haha!
*Ahhh the people!!
Today, Sara & I first went to the HK Space Museum and secondly, the HK Art Museum. It took us about a half hour to get through the Space Museum as it's quite small. They have exhibits talking about rocket launches, the planets & stars, etc. We also watched a 40-minute movie about "cosmic collisions" on their huge I-max screen. The images were pretty, but I almost fell asleep because the information was kind of boring, haha! The Art Museum is also small, but has a bunch of antiques from the Chinese dynasties & contemporary Chinese art. The antique rooms were neat & showcased a bunch of pottery, tea sets, sculptures, and jewelry. Chinese art is very, very different from what we are used to at the art museums in the US - almost all of the paintings are in black & white & there is a large amount of calligraphy. Some of the calligraphy is very sloppy & hard to read, while other calligraphy is very intricate and precise. I definitely enjoyed the museums, especially because it was only $5 HKD (60 cents in the US) for students - can't go wrong with that :)
*Space Museum I-max theater!
*Example of Chinese calligraphy
That's all for now, until next time - Happy Halloween as well :) Love you all!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment