First week in Hong Kong

The first week has passed in a blur of activity. Every day has been filled up with official stuff, poor kids!!! We have tried to add some stuff in for them but the rainy weather has stopped most of our ideas. One thing that has caught both of their attention is travelling on the trains - India hates being confined to her backpack, but if she can hold onto something like daddy then she is happy (most of the time).

Noah just loves using the poles to practise being Fireman Sam, much to the amusement of the people of Hong Kong as I am quite sure that none of the other children every act out their own imaginery scene from Fireman Sam all on their own in the train carriage - with the finale always being a big jump and slide down the pole - never sure whether to be proud of his creative imagination or slightly embarrassed at his lack of awareness of how very different that sort of behaviour is here.

The water shooters have provided hours of fun for our kids. They are on each day for 3 hrs down at the park. Great when the weather is muggy. The first day Paul took them down while I went to buy exciting things like rubbish bins etc....that night I asked what had happened to Noah's back (it was all red) - apparently Paul had been dragging him around the water park and both of them thought it was brilliant fun until later on when we saw the fake grass burn on his back - poor little guy, looked quite sore.

Both of the kids love the big couch we have bought, they play squirrels with the sleeping bags, do massive belly flops, use the cardboard boxes to slide off it, conduct crawling races etc...hours of fun for a very small second hand price. They can be great friends when all the stars and moons align themselves - if they aren't quite all lined up then Noah tries to convince India to do any number of naughty deeds - or India squeals and shrieks as only women can when Noah takes her dolly for a rumble on the couch (the response is just so dramatic no wonder he does it numerous times!)