Saturday with the boys.

Saturday dawned chilly and grey but the Buxton Boys had some plans for today, give Mom some rest! So as she rolled over to go back to sleep we were pulling on pants and packing bags for a day out on the city. We skip breakfast and begin the "walk of eternity" with the birds chirping and the world to ourselves. There are not a lot of people up at TT Gardens at 7:20am on a Saturday.

Getting to the bus stop Sean goes to "call his mom" on the payphone and I watch for Bus 14, the double decker! We didn't have to wait long but we didn't get the front seats, so we went straight to the back of the top deck. Sean has become quite comfortable on the bus and he just checks out what is passing by as we head to Shau Kei Wan. Its shaping up to be a beautiful day, cool at about 16C, but blue skies fluffy clouds and wind.

Shau Kei Wan is the standard, buns, milk and more buns! It is not the healthiest breakfast but it sure is popular! Sean got a sweet red bean bun and I got a ham and spring onion one that I won't get again. Then milks and COCONUT BUNS! I type it that way because it is said that way along with ICE CREAMMM, and CAAAAKKE whenever he sees them in passing. We eat with the old guys and gals of Shau Kei Wan at one of the sitting out areas. We chat and they stare and then we go on our merry way.

Today our merry way was onto the MTR to head to Admiralty and Hong Kong Park. We were exploring today. We saw the Conservatory with its display of local plants, then we went to the aviary were we got to see all the cool colours of birds eating breakfast. By this time we were ready for a snack. I think it may be a Buxton male thing to eat constantly. Sean was getting a bit hyper by this point so we ran to the playground and did some dirt digging, some slide sliding, and some ladder climbing for about an hour.

Dad was getting a bit antsy/bored so he began enquirying about moving on to Hong Kong Botanical Gardens and Zoo. Turns out its just up some stairs, around a corner, down a street, across a bridge and you are there! So we did it. I had in mind lions and tigers and bears, oh my, but there was just no time. We had to get some food into us! So we stopped at a shop to refuel with water "waters good for us!" and got a foam airplane and spinny straw. Well I might as well have purchased Disneyland. We were completely (Sean) enthralled for the rest of the day. Which was good because we had to walk down to Central catch an MTR to Sai Wan Ho and eat noodles still! The ladies had a great time laughing at us as Sean brough out his tiger chopsticks and we muddled our way through ordering.



We had a great day and got back for 2pm bedtime.