Tuesday-Thursday, May 27-29

Tuesday-Thursday, May 27-29

Remember when we couldn't find the "mangos" the other day? The boys found them!

Nick really missed his school and his friends while he was in HK. Imaginary Lewis (Lewis is his best bud back home) was in our apartment quite a bit the first few weeks. One of the museums had a Chinese schoolroom set, which had audio of schoolchildren singing and reciting. Nick didn’t want to leave the room. He was swaying to the Chinese school songs and then got so excited when “Row, Row, Row Your Boat” came on, singing along. Nick spent a lot of time building forts at the apartment out of the couch/chair cushions. At one point, he called the cushions his “friends”, making Chris a little anxious to get Nick back home to his routine and friends. Luckily they’ve already got play dates/parties lined up for their return.

The boys spent a lot of time at the Zoological gardens. They also ventured out to the Museum of Coastal defense this week. Apparently the kid’s games at the museum are pretty intense. Gas masks, grenades, guns. Not your usual kiddy games. Ferry rides, subway rides, bus rides, tram rides…You name it and those boys were using their Octopus cards to ride it.

The boys left Hong Kong today L Of course we had rain all morning. The hardest rain I’ve seen since we’ve been here. Taxis/cars can’t get down our hill (thus our original drop off at the top of the hill 6 weeks ago), so it was a wet 5 minute dash up to the escalators. Dodging umbrellas and hanging meat while trying to get 2 suitcases, 2 bags, a purse, 2 adults and a kid up the hill. Finally made it, only to get it all up two flights of stairs (covered – thank God). But we made it and got them to the airport train station, which has airport check-in counters! So they were able to dump their luggage, secure boarding passes and head to the airport with just themselves and their snack bags. Lots of hugs/kisses. I didn’t cry until they were on the train waving goodbye. It was so much fun being able to share these adventures with them. I know they’ll miss parts of it. But I also know they’re looking forward to getting home to pizza, streets without crowds/meat markets/pushing, school, toys and the car! Safe travels guys – I love you! And I’ll see you in three short weeks!