Cornwall Street Playground and Festival Walk

We finally found the closes park from grandparents' place Cornwall Street Playground
(歌和老街兒童遊樂場).The palm trees reminds me of California, but not the weather. This park has lots of swings, two play slides on opposite side and a bunch of sit and rock or bounce play structures. Walking down hill is better than walking up. And my kiddies concurred.

I really miss the weather in SoCal!

 I love the padded area, the grassy patch parts are filled with rocks and sand so I do not recommend shoes off for the kiddies. I also like the fact the play area is surrounded by thick bushes and hedges so the kiddies don't run out to the heavy traffic street. This playground is pretty much empty on a weekday. We did see younger toddlers with their parents.

My mom and I headed out to Festival Walk (又一城 :: 80 Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon Tong) to grab lunch for everyone. HKD 20 taxi ride. This mall is huge! They have a good size ice skating rink Glacier on the ground floor. I really love to take the kiddies for some ice skating lessons =) Brand name shops from top to bottom ... am I glad to find my fave Juicy Couture. Anyways so the food court is located on the top floor overlooking the ice skating rink. What are at the food court? McD, several noodle places, korean, KFC, etc They also have a large supermarket on the opposite called Taste. I am sure I will be back more often then I need to explore what they have to offer.

Location:Kowloon Tong

Walk, playground, van and metro ride

Walking a very steep uphill in Hong Kong in 26 degree heat plus 65% humidity is a fleeting task more than any workout my two kiddies had done in the past. We walked up Ede road to Beacon Hill Road and ended up at the Lung Cheung Road playground (龍翔道遊樂場). It is a cute little park with a mini playground, but no swings. I wondered why no swings? It takes up too much room? Land is expensive.

What you see is what you get here.

We walked down hill from the park to a mini green van stop and took a ride to the Kowloon Tong metro station. My dad paid for everyone, but the stupid van driver accused some of us for not paying for the ride. HKD 19.50 for 5 of us which my dad placed a 20 bill plus he used his octopus card to pay for his ride. That dude made 50 cents! What a rude man?!?

Anyways, we head out to the metro and purchased our Octopus card. The card is very convenient to use as a public transportation debit card and also at stores if they accept the card.

Location:Kowloon Tong