Brought cupcakes to school to enjoy during snack time. Then party after school...
Party theme "Favorite Things"
Starting at home: "Hanging out with friends, snacks, gaming, ice cream and cupcakes"
Moving on to dinner out (Buono Nuobo): "Sushi, pizza, noodles"
Finally dessert (Honeymoon Dessert): "Mango"
Some parents joined us to enjoy takeout desserts and conversation at the 7/F water fountain/garden while the boys ran around and played tag. It was a great party! Thanks all for making Alex's day special.
My Dad at age 10
Monday, August 02, 2010
Toward the end of summer, we flew to the East Coast for my cousin's wedding. I don't remember going to Long Island as a kid, so we spent a few days based in Port Jefferson visiting Mom's friends and then to NJ for the wedding before driving back to the city for a few more days. During that time we had a little memorial for my Dad and buried a small urn of his ashes near his parents. After "visiting" other relatives at the cemetery, we all headed to Chinatown for lunch in his honor. My dad - he made an impression on a great number of people. He will live on in our memories.
You may notice from the photos that enjoyed lots of frozen treats - ice cream and lemon ice as well as lots of yummy food in great company during our week there.
Paul's brother James married Kathryn this summer! It was an exciting time for all and great to see a lot of relatives and friends. Three days of events surrounding the marriage of James and Kathryn - rehearsal, rehearsal dinner, wedding, reception, Chinese banquet... Wow! It was wonderful to see familiar faces.
The end of the school year: a time for tests, and a time for class parties and trips...
Saturday, a bunch of Maggie's classmates and 12 parents jumped on a junk boat for an outing to Ung Kong Wan, Bluff Island. We were picked up in East TST and motored through Victoria Harbour, and around Clearwater Bay peninsula, to the bay. It was a beautiful, protected bay, with a "not too rocky" beach. Apparently there are reefs closer to shore, so will plan to go snorkeling another time. Unfortunately some people got a little seasick while motoring for over an hour to get there, but they took the speedboat to the beach for a bit to recover. A couple of dads hiked to up 100 meters from the beach for a panoramic view, while others swam, jumped off the boat, and road the banana boat. We had too much food, and not quite enough drinks - there was water, but that's not the kids' number one choice! Next time we'll know what to bring...
Seven beautiful moms! Didn't get a shot of the five dads...
Click the link "Boat Trip 2010" above to see more photos on Picasa and here's a video of some who jumped. Anyone get one of me or Paul?
All the kids except for Alex - I think he was tired out from swimming back to the boat from the beach with Paul.
Only a week to go - have a great summer everyone!
Saturday, May 22, 2010
Friday was a holiday here and we were thinking of going camping, but the weather called for occasional showers so we decided to go on a waterfall hike instead. I'd come across this trail on the hiking maps as well as online so when some friends that said they'd gone before said they'd go again, we decided to hit the trail. We left from the village they lived in and walked about 3km to the start of the trail that went up another 3km to about 300m according to this chart. By the time we were headed to the second of three falls, it started raining. The last section up to the main falls was pretty steep - we were like mountain goats - and we would have to go back down the way we went up to get home! The kids were already wet from the rain, so had no qualms having a dunk in the pool. My quads were tired today, but Maggie and I still walked about 4km around town while waiting for Alex to finish his karate class. Click here or on the link that says Ng Tung Chai waterfalls below the photos to see more photos from our hike.
Sunday afternoon we went to Upper Shing Mun Reservoir for the first time. We made it to the northern tip and apparently there are waterfalls if we had gone upstream along the rocks that we crossed. It was beautiful - amazing that the trail around is only a few minutes from the busy-ness that is HK. Next time, we'll circumnavigate the whole reservoir or try walking back to our side of the pass (Tai Wai) via the lower reservoir. It doesn't look like there is any water in there now though - I think I heard something about a tunnel being bored for another road to the mainland...
