Le Saboteur, I wanted to say thanks for all your suggestions. We got back from our trip yesterday and had a great time.
We spent the first day (Thursday the 10th) in Central doing some shopping, the escalators, the Man Mo Temple and Hollywood Road Park, Cat street, etc. and some shopping in Causeway Bay. We also hit up both of Hong Kong's tiki bars, Honi Honi and Wahtiki.
The next day we started by travelling out your way, to Sham Shui Po to visit some markets, Then we jumped over to the Chi Lin Nunnery & Nan Lian Gardens. Those were awesome, maybe the highlight of the trip, and not something we would have done had you not mentioned them. After that it was into Mong Kok for some shopping and then we saw the less-than-impressive light show on the waterfront before taking the ferry back across.
Saturday as the first nice day so we took the bus (not the tram) up Victoria Peak and back. That's a fun ride and worth the extra time. We took the bus all the way back to the docks and took the Star Ferry over for some sightseeing and shopping in TST. We also went back to Mong Kok to toy shop in In's Point, which was an experience. We kind of ran out of energy after 3 days and ended up calling it an early night.
Sunday was our transfer day out to Sunny Bay and we spent Monday and Tuesday doing Hong Kong Disneyland. Wednesday, when we originally scheduled to do the Big Buddha, we decided to go back into town instead and do more sightseeing on Hong Kong Island. We rode the ding ding, hit up a LEGO shop where I found the 4 limited edition Hong Kong sets, and did a bit of final shopping before heading back and packing.
Thanks again for the tips. Without them we probably would have done the Buddha instead of the nunnery and gardens and would have ridden the tram instead of the bus up the peak.