"Them's Lasers!"

I don't know if anyone else remembers when David Letterman used to say this, but because I am so good at remembering useless quotes and song lyrics, it sprang to mind immediately when I heard about the laser show happening at St. Paul's ruins.  The show was totally awesome and it was a lovely warm evening to be out and about in the city.  We had a pretty big crew: Carol, her friends Karen and Mary, our coworker Chris, neighbor Yeow-Tong, and Beth and Angie and I.  First we met for dinner near Senado Square, which is a major tourist area near St. Paul's.  It was delicious, as is every place Carol brings us, and I got pan fried noodles again, because they are awesome.  You can see here some of the decorations for the upcoming Mid-Autumn Festival, which celebrates the harvest moon.  Here is a link to the Wikipedia site if you want to read more about it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-Autumn_Festival

After dinner we walked over to see the show.  I managed to get a little video, but it was tough to hold still with the camera over my head.  I guess they did it with some sort of image mapping technology.  I should have written down the website at the end so I could get you the deets, but I didn't.  Sorry faithful readers!

Afterward I accomplished a task I've been working toward since before I came to Macau.  Some of you may have watched or at least read about Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations episode on Macau.  I posted it early on in the blog before I arrived.  In it, he goes to a number of famous restaurants, including a little one that serves milk pudding.  I knew that sounded like something I'd enjoy, so I've been trying to get over there.  Finally accomplished it tonight and it was awesome!  Definitely going to be a regular stop when I'm in that area.  And don't you love the sign?

After the show I walked home by myself to enjoy the lights and night scenes of the city.  I took another short vid of a square near our house.  So many exciting things to see, and they're really not kidding about this festival.  There are lanterns and decorations going up everywhere.  I'm not a huge fan of mooncakes, but they seem to be an important part of the celebration, so I'll have to give them another go.  It was also a really cool view of the lighthouse on top of Guia Hill, although this probably doesn't do it justice.  You should come see it for yourselves!

When I was almost home a couple in front of me stopped to look at something on the ground.  At first I thought it was a cockroach, since we live in harmony with many of them here, but no, it was this exotic looking thing!  I have no idea what it was, but it was big!  Like 2 inches long!  Sorry it's kind of blurry, the bug was crawling and I didn't want to try to stop it or get too close.

This is a shot of the street near my house.  I just thought it looked cool.  Yay weekend!  Finally I can sleep in late!