With the Olympics in full swing and Daddy checking his iphone every 5 minutes for score updates on Team Canada could there be a better time to learn to skate? Well Sean and Daddy headed off on another adventure this morning to find the roller blade store in Hong Kong! Its not like driving over to SportCheck here. There is only one place in Hong Kong to buy roller blades and its in Tin Hau a place we rarely go. So we headed out to find some "treasure"! (roller blades). We took a bus and a trolley bus and we walked so just three forms of transport and it was really easy to find. The man there was very helpful and we learned a lot about rollerblading in China. This shop is the only distributer to China. Almost all rollerblades are made in China but essentially all roller blades used in China come through this shop!

Anyway, found a great pair ("with lots of fancy stuff on them") tried them on and bought them. They are extendable and have four different lengths, and a buckle, a velcro strap and laces. So we bought them. We got some noodles for lunch, that is me, Sean, lightning mcqueen and Boost did (cars from CARS) got some lunch, then we took a taxi home.

NAP time...

Waking up from nap is one cheery little boy, who "watched somethin" on the DVD and then headed out to the garage with Dad to rollerblade. Well Dad held his hand and got him rolling around and pushing with his feet and well the video speaks for itself. That was after about 15 minutes! He kept skating with Chloe his baby sitter after Mom & Dad headed out for DateNight, smiling all the time...

Can't wait to here how it went in the morning!

CNY & Valentines Day

two holidays in one... it was a bit overwhelming. I mean the Chinese New Year is the biggest holiday of the year for close to 2 billion people, almost 1/3 of the whole world. I mean they close Wellcome. So we ate Macanese food for lunch. It is also Valentines Day. I give Karla flowers every Saturday of the whole year so what do I do on Valentines Day, no flowers. I guess we are a little confused here in the Buxton house.

Karla lead worship for kids today, all 25 of them! Not a huge turnout to church on CNY day. It was alright Sean got to hangout with his friend Ryder and then we played some chess and foozeball in the youth room. We walked and bused (double decker!~) in the rain and then all of us had a two hour nap. It was much needed.

Well we got things right for dinner, heart shaped pancakes with fruits for toppings. After dinner Dad and Sean went up to the pool for a big energy sapper. He swam 4 lengths of the pool and then I gave him a rest and we played on the noodles for another 20min. The pool is nice and warm!

Oven mitts

Do we need to say anything?

Saturday morning...

Up early today for our trip to the Museum of Coastal Defense in Shau Kei Wan. Museums in Hong Kong are really quite good and this was supposed to be a great one. Its an old fort from the early nineteen hundreds that used to protect the eastern entrance to the harbour.

Anyway we were going to go with our friends Kevin McCaughey and his son Liam. So we headed down for buns, the usual routine, and then walked over to the coast. The museum doesn't open til 10 so we killed some time checking out the wholesale fish market. The market was all over by 9:30 but Sean and I walked around and checked out the boats. We ambled over to the museum and saw out in front some WWII era military vehicles. Well Sean was a bit taken aback by the huge cannons on these tanks and APVs. It took him a while to feel safe around them.

Anyway our friends arrived and we toodled through a very impressive fort for about 1.5 hours with some time on the computer games but lots of running around outside and chasing paper airplanes.

For lunch Sean and I stopped at a Shanghainese cafe for noodles and dumplings "potstickers" they call them. We ordered way to much as I normally do and then went home for naps...