This morning was an early morning (again, I really need to choose later flights when they are available…) and after having our early breakfast, we finished off packing our bags and checked out of the lovely Holiday Inn to catch a meter taxi back to Suvarnabhumi Airport. The trip there was quite bemusing as our taxi driver must have been on the wrong side of 80 and insisted on making phone calls throughout the trip, laughing hysterically about what was being said by the other person and then relating the hilarity in his not so great English to us.
All checked in for our return flight with Air Asia, we browsed the duty free shops and came to the conclusion, like at Siam Paragon, that Thailand really isn’t the place for cheap brand name items, that is, unless they have been knocked off and serious copyright infringements have been made.
The flight back to Macau wasn't too bad – my heart did skip a beat when, during take off, our pilot decided to drop a couple of feet down about 10secs into the wheels having left the tarmac before realising his/her mistake and then gaining altitude again. Lets just say, emergency exits were sought out and my grip on the hand rest did tighten a fair bit…
Arriving in Macau, we dropped our bags off at left luggage and caught the free shuttle bus to the Venetian Casino where we spent the next 4 hours or so doing what seems to be the number 1 activity of this trip – SHOPPING. If we were disappointed by the sales and variety of clothes on offer in Honkie Tonks, The Shoppes at the Venetian more than made up for it. 70% signs dotted storefronts throughout the centre and the higher Macau Pataca also made things a bit better.
Dinner tonight was some nice Portuguese food, namely a duck baked rice bowl and some chicken curry. We also loaded up on local sweets of Almond Cakes and Peanut Candy. About 6hours into our 12hour layover (why, oh why?!), we gave up on walking around anymore – perhaps more so being vetoed by our feet than anything else and parked our tired asses on a couch in Starbucks and reading, listening to music and writing 4 blog entries to make the time pass by. We still have about 11 hours worth of travelling to get home, as the fantastic people at Viva Macau (*sarcasm*) generously decided to re-route us through Bali, Denpasar again to refuel (*more sarcasm*). Fingers crossed we get home in one piece!
This will be my final blog entry (unless there is something to write about and we have an eventful flight) until August when my European adventure begins – well actually, it's a bit more of a United Kingdom adventure due to the falling Aussie dollar to euro conversion. Until then, there may be a few domestic trips in between, so stay tuned! ☺
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