cake

A bought a cake to celebrate early b'day w/ dad this year. We got one from Mrs B in HKG. Let me tell you, the cakes from Mrs. B were wonderful. Queen of Macau shipped one from HKG to Macau in November for A's b'day.

The cake here was sesame and coconut. Quite lovely.

Yes, the cake cutting ceremony was in a hotel room. HK Disneyland hotel. The Boston gang was there for a 2-day visit. Mom and dad were resting so we came to do a small early b'day before leaving for PVG. Speaking of the Disneyland hotel there, expensive to stay. Everything costed money. You would figure if you were in the Presidential Suite, all things were free. Nope. The hotel wanted to charge for extra bed for children!!! OK, after putting the Boston gang into a room with cages outside (renovation), rather than upgrade. The hotel "offered" the Presidential Suite for 1/2 price. A 45-minute check-in time. A bit ridiculous. O yeah, we couldn't control the Suite's room temperature. I called for an engineer to check the thermostat, the reply was "you can't do it. We have to set it for you. Sorry, we had it set at 21C. I had re-adjusted to 23.5C". Still in Air Con mode. It's winter!!!! And the Suite was facing the ocean where the wind came in. Good thing I wasn't staying there.

And now speaking of staying, we were at the Skycity M.... next to the airport. Got a suite there, not presidential. It was small! And price did not reflect the space and cleanliness. Basically, it was a room and a 1/2 joined together. Yuck! I had to wipe down the coffee table in the sitting room!!! Still had food crumbs!!! I looked side way at the table, I could see all the dry marks from people's pretty "cup landings". H K hotels are ripping people off big time now. Gouge, Gouge, Gouge.