Day 6 - Part 3 - Wax and Wackiness Part 2
A quick training session with Ali proves that I am not the greatest!
And Jared proves that even short people have big dreams (though if you are going to be effective playing defence against this guy you'd probably better dream yourself taller Jared!)
It took all Jared's effort to jump and reach the ball the guy is holding, and his arms are not even full stretched!
Here Jared simply looks like a hobbit!
I even got to meet the creater of it all, death masker to the French royal family, Madam Tussaud herself
I wonder if she ever thought a technique she originally used to capture death would one day be used to capture life!
On a lighter subject, I was soon Rocking and Rolling with the King
And dancing with the other King, you know of Pop not Rock!
I then met my favourite 4 British subjects (I think at this point I still thought of myself as Queen, I mean I did sit on the throne).
And Jared joined the band, doesn't he look every bit the 5th Beatle!
And surprisingly partial to George!
At this point I thought I had enough experience to sing some back up for Tay-Tay, but I'd imagine it would last, I'd want the spotlight before long
Since I was wanted back at Buckingham Palace I thought a bodyguard might be a good idea, and I found the best one there is!
Jared, on the other hand, was trying a little too hard with Iron Man and I don't think we convinced him that protecting us was a good idea!
Just as I was thinking if Jared had claws then we wouldn't even need a guard, looks like he grew some!
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But it really doesn't hurt to try get in the Hulk's good graces just in case!
I always joke that when Jared's hair is messy it looks like Astro Boy's, so we decided they should have a picture together.
And that ended or wacky trip through Madam Tussauds Hong Kong. Like I said, we get really silly with it, I apologise for all my terrible sarcasm above, it just seemed the best way to describe the silly things we say to each other when at a Madam Tussauds!
Anyway, once we were done we were exhausted and wanted to head home. We thought perhaps at 9pm the tram line may have gotten shorter, but nope, it still looked about 30 minutes (I'd say at a safe bet it's always 30 minutes, if not longer). We were in line and had moved a considerable way when we saw a taxi and we decided to hop out of line and grab it, when someone beat us to it (lots of angry emoji's here) so we had to hop back in line at the start again! It moved quickly, which was good, but I was still grumpy. It seemed odd to me that with how popular the peak is, that they didn't have a better system of transportation, or at least an alternative system. And the fact that taxi's rarely seemed to make it up the peak (and there was no taxi stand that I could see) seemed equally perplexing! Surely at such a big tourist spot taxi's would always find fares! Anyway, we were lucky enough this time to get a seat on the tram and the return journey was uneventful. We later discovered Sky Terrace is open until midnight, and we noticed barely any people on the tram going up the peak at 9:30pm, so if you are a night owl and want to avoid lines without booking I'd suggest this is a good time of evening to go.
On our walk back to the hotel from the MTR we decided to shot a little bit of the Hong Kong streets we were walking though. They were so vibrant at night, colourful and well lit, but they also show a bit of the run down nature of a lot of Hong Kong that in part gives it it's charm and in other parts makes it seem a little less impressive than somewhere like Shanghai.
The car in this picture was a taxi, and in Hong Kong all taxi's are exactly the same make and model of car (a Toyota) that look about 30 years old (even though I could tell some of them weren't as they had LED headlights etc). Toyota must make this particular model, perpetually stuck in the late 80's/early 90's, on the cheap specifically for Hong Kong taxi's - but it was so weird!
As I say all that I've noticed the taxi in the front of the line of taxi's in this next picture is not a Toyota and looks different (this would have been an anomaly I'm sure) - but you'll notice it still looks like a 30 year old car!
And that ended our first day in the city of Hong Kong. Honestly, we hadn't had the best experience of Hong Kong. It was extremely busy, nosy, dirty and seemed old and rundown. Still, it had a charm to it and an energy that was un-deniable. We may have judged it a little poorer due to the constant dreary smog that was always around, though I believe this is common about 6 months of the year. Still, it was probably our least favourite of all the cities we visited, though we'd find some redeeming qualities on our next day of exploration.
Continued in Next Post...
... those photos are stunning!
Otherwise try googling Shanghai Highlights, they are the company we originally booked through and do a great job as well. 
