Hong Kong Adventures: Hong Kong Day 40 - Last day of work and lunch at the Crown Wine Cellars

Today was officially our last day of work, presentation day. We went into work a bit early and finished the final touches for our presentation. The presentations were in the AOT building, and started at 9:30, so we headed over to there from the Mass Mutual Tower. Kathy and Yan presented first, then Ciara and I presented, and Evelyn finished off the day. Ken Madrid, Shen Kong, Magali Delafosse, and all of our sponsors were there for our presentation and also for Kathy and Yan's. Shen left before Evelyn presented, and Norah Franchetti and a couple of other people joined in via WebEx. Professor Sawyer was also there via WebEx for all three presentations. The presentations went well, and we were all relieved when we were done.

After all of the presentations, we went downstairs and got cabs to go to the Crown Wine Cellars in Shouson Hill for dinner. It is up on a hill about 15 minutes from Wanchai, our cab hit a lot of traffic so it took quite a bit longer, it took 25 minutes to go just a couple of miles, but once we were outside Wanchai it only took a few minutes to get to the wine cellars. Once there, we walked through the dining rooms to the library. The general manager came in and talked about the history of the Wine Cellars, and then we started eating. The Wine Cellars use World War II bunkers, so they are pretty far underground and have 1 meter thick walls and ceilings. They were used as ammunition storage, so they were made to be very secure.

They had a little buffet set up for us for lunch, it had fruit, salad, steak of some kind, and pasta. There were also mini sandwiches on the table. The food was really good, the steak was super tender, and the other things were pretty flavorful. After eating, we headed back out to the conservatory and took a few pictures and then headed back to the office. We finished off anything that we had left for our projects and said good bye to people and then went back to Causeway to change and drop things off.

We went back down to Wanchai for happy hour and dinner. There were a few people who wanted to go out, so we went to Splash for a little while. Alena, Laurent, Maria, Ana, and Josh were at happy hour with us. We stayed there for a couple of hours and then went out for dinner. Ana wanted to take us out one last time, so we went back to the Korean restaurant and she treated us to dinner, which was really nice. We had fun eating and just talking and then we walked back to our apartments to pack up. Ciara and Evelyn are leaving Hong Kong tomorrow, Yan's mom came so she will spend a few days with her here and then go to her home in China. Kathy is going to a hotel and her boyfriend will be joining her to travel for a while. I will go spend a few days with Samantha Ma before heading home. Apparently we can't see each other in California, so we have to meet up in Hong Kong!! Looking forward to the next few days.