okay, well, no planes :-) but there were boats!
today, i held livie out of school so that we could have a bunch of fun playing with our friends from the u.s., and so that i could take the kids into TST to meet up with an expat i met at the book club meeting i went to last week.
we had an absolute ball. the plan had been to head over to kowloon park for some playground and pool fun, but the pool closes at noon each day for an hour of maintenance, so with travel time, that would leave us less than an hour to play in that pool. instead, we joined our friends at their apartment building pool. 4 of the 5 kiddos played in the water for close to 2 hours before we broke for a delicious lunch. after lunch, quinn and i headed out to TST to meet up with my friend, and the bug stayed back to play with the girls.
when i collected olivia this afternoon, i found a very happy and tired girl. she had a great time. q slept a good portion of our adventure, but was awake enough to chug most of my caramel macchiato, flirt with my friend, and then enjoy a quick and fun ferry ride back to central. he kept asking for sissy and for his friend, c, but he mostly was pretty happy to have mommy (and all of mommy's drink) to himself.
this afternoon, we had some play time at the apartment playground, and then i made butter chicken for dinner. taz, if you're reading this, i screwed it up again. i finally figured out how, though. in texas, i use large boneless chicken breasts, but here, the chicken is much smaller...either just a smaller breast piece (hahaha IBTC) or chicken fingers. i was using the tandoori powder ratio that i used in texas, but it's too strong for the smaller amount of chicken i use here. tonight's version was better than the last time i made it, but it still wasn't as good as it should be. so sad. i need GOOD butter chicken. NOW! ;-)
q giving me cutie face on the ferry. notice that buzz came along for the ride. notice, also, the three seats to q's left. he sidled across all three of those seats until he was right next to the passenger who was sitting beside the window. i am not sure what q thought he was going to do...maybe climb over the guy and off the boat? fortunately, he got a little bit shy right as he got into the chair next to that passenger, and then we got to the dock. potential crisis was averted.
pic from the ferry
a picture for our friend, russ. i swear i think i have taken this picture for russ before, but i'm not entirely sure. it bears repeating, though. russ, you have your own coffee company here ;-p
q was pretty thrilled to be reunited with his stroller. we borrowed it from our friends for this adventure. i knew that after 2 hours in the pool, q was going to crash hard. he did. 30 seconds after i buckled his belt, he was out. i had to get him out once to get through an MTR turnstile. he didn't care. he murmured to me in his sleep, and then went right back to sleep when i got through the turnstile and dumped him back in the stroller. he slept soundly while i walked around looking for the starbucks and then continued sleeping soundly for about 20 minutes after we got to starbucks. he woke up just in time to flirt himself a portion of my friend's drink and then to polish off more than half of my drink.
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