Day 5- December 4, 2008

We woke up checked out of our hotel room to head off to Macau. We took a speed boat over to the island, which took about an hour. Once there we debated whether to take a bus or taxi to our hotel. We ended up taking a taxi after waiting for a bus for over 20 min. I will post about all our hotels on another post, but I'll just say our goal was to stay out of our room as much as possible. Macau is a lot like Vegas. Casinos aren't allowed in Hong Kong or China, so people come here to gamble. They have a lot of the same big Vegas hotels like the MGM Grand, The Venetian, Sands, etc... The funny thing about Macau is they speak Portuguese and Cantonese. As opposed to Hong Kong which speaks Cantonese and English. Also on the island are ruins of old churches. Jake found the way to the St. Paul ruins and we walked around there for a little bit. Then we decided to head out to the Venetian and see the show Cirque De Soleil. We got there and had a lot of time to kill. We ate at this place called Fat Burger, which had the best chocolate shakes...mmmm, tasty. Then we ended up walking around and looking at all the high end shops. We were a little worried about how the show was going to be, but it ended up being really good. It was pretty artsy, but we were amazed at everything.

Can you see me?Here were the 3 Musketeers singing Christmas carols...it was a little weird