HKG200 & 201: Weekend Roundup

we had a great weekend. josh returned to hong kong on saturday morning feeling a little bit rested. to try to get back on hong kong time, he stayed up for the day, and we got out to do a few things. we went to victoria's park and then to lunch and to do a little toy shopping. everything was cool until it was time to leave the toy store...without a coveted train. let's just say that that particular toy shop is now in time out...or we in time out from it. in the afternoon, i got my hair cut and ran a few errands before dinner while josh got the kids down to our building playground.

sunday started out nice and slow. just before lunch, josh took the kids to see the new 3-D smurfs movie and then to get lunch....they had a blast. livie reports that smurfette is her favorite. quinn was unable to tell me who his favorite smurf was, but he did report liking the movie. while josh and the kids were out, i finished a book i was reading, ate a leisurely lunch, and then headed out to try to get a workout at the YWCA. strangely enough, the gym is open only to hotel guests on sunday (the garden view YWCA is attached to the nitty gritty YWCA where we take classes and stuff). instead of a gym workout, i just walked around central for a couple hours and did a couple of errands before heading home.

this coming week will be our usual level of busy and fun with a couple of extra things to do. on tuesday, i have an informal parent-teacher conference at livie's school, and on thursday, q and i will FINALLY visit the much coveted toy room at the central library. it turns out you have to book this place at least 24 hours in advance, but it works best to book 4 or 5 days in advance if you want a morning session. i am hoping that it's as good as i think it is. i am sure q will think it's awesome simply to play with someone else's toys.

livie has really begun to zoom across the monkey bars, now. she is enjoying her YWCA gymnastics class, but i am eager to get her back into a more rigorous and challenging gymnastics program; i know she would enjoy learning more on the uneven parallel bars, horse, and parallel bars...she definitely has the upper-body strength to apply to those apparatuses.

all that monkey prowess resulted in a rather nasty blister-y issue on livie's palm. OUCH!