Aberdeen Harbor and The Peak

Yesterday Michelle and I started our day by going to Aberdeen Harbor which is a big fishing port and where boat people used to live (and we actually saw some that still do live on their boats). There you can take a ride on a Sampan (small boat) around the harbor with a little guide that drives the Sampan.

This was our Sampan....

JUST KIDDING! (Still cracking myself up...my own jokes never get old to me) this is a sampan

This is a HUGE floating restaurant that sits in the harbor and our guide was kind of enough to take a picture of us in front of it. I love this picture because I feel like if there was EVER any doubt before, this picture truly proves, we are in China.

The restaurant a little closer up...it is HUGE

The whole view

Again with the hats...we couldn't get enough of other people's hats....

At the front of the sampan with the harbor behind me

Some local fisherman we ran across

Our faithful guide who I'm pretty certain uses some pretty hard core Crest Whitestrips but he wouldn't own up to it or the question didn't translate correctly but I know what I know-we gave him a SC pin by the way...he deserved it!

This condo complex was so crazy-it had a hole carved out in the middle of the building

After leaving Aberdeen I took Michelle to my favorite markets in Stanley Village (a little beach town) where she finished up her shopping for friends and family and then it was off to get fish pedicures. I wasn't going to originally take Meesh to do this but she thought she could hang. We have video of the pedicure going down which is hilarious/choppy since I tend to shake/convulse when I laugh really hard. But, hopefully Michelle will put some of the video on the blog when she gets home. She's planning on gracing the blog with a "guest post" so we will see....

A little weary to stick her feet in at this point...which is understandable

Then she decided, oh no no no no no, I do not like this feeling

Then she begs the lady working if she can switch the time of her session from 20 minutes to 1 minute. The lady sort of scared us both and so Michelle just kept her feet in.

Here it is folks....

The reward to doing the fish is being at the Peak afterward for the breathtaking views...

last night did NOT disappoint. The city brightly gave Michelle a proper send off.

Then Michelle had been saving her last SC pin for our nighttime doorman who she really liked and felt like she got to know the best. She kept saying all week, "I have to save a pin for Harold." Here is Michelle and the doorman with the SC pin. PS: His name is Charles.

I had one of the funnest weeks of my life with Michelle here and am so grateful that she came. Thanks, Meesh! We love you very very much!