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let’s not start fighting already”, said dad. After breakfast, they found their way to the Museum. It was enormous
and they thought it would take forever to find one vase. It just so happened that today the museum was having a
special showing of its oldest vase, the only one left from the Ming Dynasty. They were outside when a plan
popped into Claire’s head. She elbowed Mindy, a little bit too hard as usual in the ribs and as always she
overreacted and they began to argue, they got so loud that the guards came over to see what was going on. Claire
quickly gave her dad a wink and he realised they were distracting the guards so he could grab the vase. While the
girls and the guards argued between them, mum and dad smuggled the vase out of the museum and headed back
to the hotel. The arguing continued long after the vase was taken, they were so good at it. “Sorry”, said Claire,
and Mindy was so shocked because she never usually apologised, she stopped talking and they both left the
museum. Well done, we managed to get the vase and nobody suspected a thing, said Claire. “What are you
talking about”, said Mindy, grumpily. Claire explained that she had argued so that the guards were distracted and
mum and dad could get to the vase. “Oh, right”, said Mindy, who had completely missed the point of the
argument.
Next stop was Macau, they had been given an extra clue for Macau, they had panicked at the thought of
finding one flower in such a big city. The clue said, ‘look for the flower that cannot be picked’. The family
didn’t understand what it meant, so they decided to go up to the highest point of the city to look for the greenest
area, they thought that’s where most of the flowers would be growing. Once they reached Macau’s famous
landmark, the Macau Tower, the skywalk gave them a view over the whole city. There were so many green
parks they thought it would take them all day to find one tiny flower. Mindy sighed, “we’ll never find a tiny
flower in such a big city” .”Well maybe it is a huge flower”, argued Claire. With this idea in her mind suddenly
Mindy spotted the biggest flower she had ever seen, you mean like that one. The whole family looked out over
the city and saw that the way the buildings were arranged made it into the shape of an open lotus flower. “Well
done “, said mum and dad, “see you just worked together to found the next item”. “This is whats symbolizes
Macau”, Mindy said. “So what do we do now”? Said Claire,” I think we have to take a picture!!” said dad. So
they got out their camera and took about 20 pictures.
Next stop Hong Kong! , it says we have to find 3 bauhinia coins. They had to go to the “ Bank of China”.
The government of Kutopia gave them a special ticket that when you insert it into the bank machine, it gives
you exactly three bauhinia coins. When they inserted the coins, instead of coins was a piece of paper. It said to
answer the question and then take the coins. ‘What can you keep giving away that keeps returning to
you?’ “QUICK let’s google it”, said mum. “ UGH, it doesn’t say anything, wait maybe the answer is money,
like the time you lent me money for that toy, but I had to pay you back, with interest”, said Claire. “Hey I don’t
think you ever did pay me back”, said Mindy. “Oops sorry”, said Claire, “ okay let’s try that. WRONG, said the
machine, two more tries”. “ “Oh I have an idea, presents”, said claire. “ WRONG said the machine. Then dad
smiled, “I think maybe being a dad has taught me this, mum and I give you both love every day and we feel
loved by you both in return”, he said. “But you can’t see it”, said Claire, “but I guess we are showing it right
now by helping each other. It was correct! The whole family was surprised but they got their coins and had
finished their quest.
“ Quickly, we have to give the items we collected to the Kutopian government. So they rushed back to
Kutopia. The government was so surprised to see them return so soon, they weren’t sure that they would have