Macau City

After lunch since we still had loads of time, we decided to take the free bus down to the city. To get around the main attractions in Macau, you just have to go to the nearest big hotel and for sure they have a free bus to where you want to go. Again Over-The-Top-ness and all of these are so that the casino can bring more people to the casino to spend money. The bus from City of Dreams stops right in the city near....

Why Casino Lisboa is significant is because it is one of the first hotels and Casino in Macau, it is owned by Stanley Ho which is one of Hong Kong's billionaire. In 2008, they decided heck it is not enough we need to make a bigger more outstanding hotel and they built the Grand Lisboa. I think they had the Over-The-Top thing high in their mind and they decided we need to built a hotel which is so Over-The-Top it beats everyone by a country mile....

The cool thing about Casino Lisboa and Grand Lisboa is.....

More then 20 years ago, my parents were in Macau and took a picture in front of Casino Lisboa and fast forward 20+ years it is still there and....

now they are taking a picture in front of the Grand Lisboa. Hopefully in the next 20 years I can bring my parents back to Macau and take another picture. Wouldn't that be special.

After we checked out the Lisboa hotel, we went looking for the famous St Paul's Ruins. We have to walk through the main shopping street of Macau and man it was a weekday and still the amount of people around here is crazy.

When we finally found the Ruins of St Paul, the first thing we did was....

Family photo la of course. Then I went crazy taking pictures of the Ruins.....

After all the walking and picture taking, we got hungry and we had to of course have a Macau speciality which is...

It is the famous Macau Pork burger. This was the first one we had and it was nice but not special. Later in the trip, my cousin brought us to the first place that started it all and it was even better. We walked around the city and did some shopping and we went back in the evening to meet up with my cousin for dinner. As we got off the bus all tired and exhausted, we saw this...

Again super Over-The-Top-ness. My cousin apparently didn't think we walked enough so she made us walk from the City of Dreams towards The Venetian and ending up at Old Taipah village for dinner. The Venetian at night was really nice..

We had some Portuguese food and oh I forgot to mention that our luggage was still at The City of Dreams so we had to walk all the way back to City of Dreams (my cousin stays near Old Taipah village) and luckily my parents decided to take a cab back to my cousins place. That concludes and very packed first day in Macau and tomorrow we are going Hong Kong for a day trip. Stay tuned.