A couple of day trips

Finally, finally the sun has started shining. I seriously thought it was a joke that it was meant to be summer over here, it had rained every day since we arrived, but the sun has emerged - yeah!!!

We have borrowed a car which is - exciting, nerve wracking, challenging, easier, hot and bothering all at the same time! We took off to investigate some of Hong Kong Island (we live on the Mainland so a 10 min drive to Pauls school on the island). The tunnel under the harbour was Noah's favourite part - loved not being able to see the end! We were both happy to make it through that navigational nightmare with no marks on the car and all passengers in tack!

We popped into Paul's school - nice to meet some people he works with. It's great as we can leave the car there and then shoot off to town easily (its a nightmare parking in central so much easier and cheaper to leave it at his school).

Here is a photo I took on the mini bus we take down to Causeway Bay:



First stop was Ikea (such a great place, such a shame to have to own children when you are shopping there!!!) - after that all of us needed some serious calorie loading after expending so much energy either racing around (if you are 2 or 4 yrs old) or being very grumpy (if you are the old cranky mum). The only option according to dad was McD's - now as a general rule I never enter through the golden arches but this was a once a year treat - my kids have never been inside a McD's before so it was all new to them - of course they loved it much better than the Chinese restaurant we forced them to go to the day before!!!





After that we decided to do a tram ride to the Midlevels escalator (meant to be the longest in the world, however Paul wonders about the validity of this claim as it is broken into parts but still very cool to just keep going up and up and up). The tram ride was great fun - two levels so Noah had to stay and "drive" it downstairs for a while while Paul and India kept calling for us to come up the stairs. A very cheap and fun way to see the city.





Our day ended after the last escalator ride we could find - just jumped in a taxi and raced back to dad's school - 2 kids had a nap through the tunnel and home - a really cool day out and about.




















The next day we took off to Sai Kung which is about 25 mins the other way. This is a small village on the coast - lots of expats live here but it still retains the older style village feel. There are lovely big trees that shade lots of the walkways so makes it much cooler to get around. We watched the ships in the harbour, and were amazed by the fish in the tanks (can't wait to go to that restaurant once I am not preggers - seafood!! yum)



- and finally headed off to the pool. What a great place!!! It had this small hydro slide for the littlies, water guns they can operate and other water things to play with while mum and dad lolled around in wonderful cold water!!! Oh bliss! Heres some photos of our second visit to Sai Kung pool (it was a bit more dramatic on this visit as a boy knocked out one of his teeth on the hydroslide - oh blood, tears...but his mum assured everyone it was wiggly anyway, just a great story to tell his friends)