Friday, March 25, 2011

Last day and airport

Had a very enjoyable last morning. After breakfast I headed back to the Central Market to look through the stalls, intending to also get another fish foot spa on my last day while mum opted to look around Chinatown one last time and Linda joined her. Arriving at the Central market I discovered that they are late to open, probably because stalls stay open into the night so with time to kill I wandered down streets I hadn't ventured before and came upon a really good fabric shop that was selling material for half the normal price. We'd been looking for some nice material all the time we'd been in Chinatown without too much success - I sprinted back to Chinatown in search of Linda and mum and found them both enjoying their great discovery of the last morning - a chinese wet market selling fish, meat and fresh vegetables along a narrow aisle located behind the shop fronts. We all headed to the fabric shop and spent the next 45 minutes engrossed in selecting materials for dresses that we are hoping Aunty Vera will make into dresses for us from a copy of a dress I already have. After that we all split up again and I headed to Central Market and bought half a dozen of my favourite portuguese egg tarts for the flight home and then booked into a half hour fish foot spa and got talked into a further 30 minutes of foot massage to follow (not that I needed much persuading mind) Back to the hotel with only minutes to spare to check out and we caught a taxi to the airport - Linda's flight is some hours before ours so after having coffee together we've now waved Linda off through the gates and mum and I are going to potter around while we wait to check into our own flight home. In fact we've just checked our watches and see that Linda's flight is probably just taking off this very minute!