Cabin fever

School's out. We've been off school since 12 June because of the swine flu. Fortunately, we still have swimming and Kids' Gallery until the end of June; we also have visitors - Mommy's friend Shao Hui and her children Romain and Lucie. We went to Ocean Park together.

After Romain and Lucie left, we had a play date with Marco at his house in Fotan on Tuesday. The next Tuesday, Mummy took us to Disneyland. We met up with Bendu, his brothers and his mummy.

Snoopy World

Jenny is returning soon to the Philippines. She took me to Snoopy World after school today. I had my picture taken with Snoopy and Charlie Brown and his gang.

3 days in Panyu, Guangzhou

Took the hydrofoil to Panyu two days ago. It took one and a half hours. Duncan got sea-sick. The shuttle bus took about an hour to get to our hotel.

We arrived just in time to have a quick dinner, and we rushed to the Guangzhou Chime-Long International Circus (长隆国际马戏团). We entered the arena just as the show was starting. There were plenty of bright lights, loud music; there were trapeze and other stunt performers, bears which rode unicycles. What I liked the most were the clowns who jumped off diving boards.

The next morning, after breakfast, we went to the nearby Guangzhou Xiangjiang Safari Park (广州香江野生动物园）. We took a trolley-bus ride through the inner park compound, and came into close contact with many types of animals. In the outer compound, we fed some parrots and some giraffes. We attended a show in the white tiger compound, with performing elephants, monkeys, and birds.

Insects were busy while we slept last night. Despite Mummy's precautions, Duncan and I woke up in the morning to find ourselves covered in mosquito bites:-( We headed for the CrocPark this morning after breakfast. There, we saw a host of reptiles: snakes, crocodiles, turtles, and we saw a show starring sea lions. I got to shake the star's hand!

a hug from the star of the show

In the afternoon, we went back to the hotel for our bags, then took the boat back to Hong Kong. Everyone except Papa was sick.

Ocean Park

Easter Holidays started after school on the 7th and I promptly fell ill. For the first few days, Gugu Big gave me my usual medicine, but I got hot in the head on the 12th and asked SGG to take me to see Dr Bean. The nurse at Dr Bean’s gave me some medicine to inhale to open up my lungs and lots of medicine to take home, including some anti-biotics (which Papa taught me to call uncle-biotics!). It was a week before I got fully better :-(.

Today, SGG took me to Ocean Park to spend the day with her friend Carol, and her daughters Adele and Aimee. I had fun and even tried the ‘Frog Hopper’ ride which I didn’t like and had to get off after a couple of hops. We saw dolphins and a very large sea lion on the back of a truck. It was a hot day and the walking tired me out so I asked SGG to take me home at lunchtime.

Hong Kong Disneyland

Papa and SGG took me to Disneyland today (Ching Ming Festival). It was a long way, and it took over one hour to get there. we took a taxi and two trains – one train had Mickey’s ears-shaped windows.

I had a lovely time. I rode Dumbo twice, Hundred Acre Wood with Pooh and his friends three times and the carousel (four times). We went on an adventure boat ride, saw the 3-D show called ‘Mickey’s Philharmagic’ and ‘The Lion King’ show which was a little scary when Scar appeared.

We then saw the Parade with all the different characters on floats including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Pooh and Buzz Lightyear, Woody and Jess. We got home at 5.15pm and I was tired but excited. Papa and SGG said I was a very good boy today:-).

Mummy left for Paris

Mommy left on Tuesday, and I shall miss her. Before she left, Papa decided that we should all go to get some family photographs. I brought along Tiger and my newly acquired tennis ball, so I have one or other in our photos.

Two days before mommy left, the three of us went for a day out to Ocean Park. I saw some sea lions and some real live dolphins. Although it wasn't the first time I've seen real dolphins up close, I now realise they are animals which live in water. I got to ride a bubble lift to go from one end of the resort to the other and I also got to see the world from up on Papa's shoulders for quite a long stretch while walking around :-)

In school, I like it when teacher Miss Sarah shakes our hands when we first greet her - we each get a star-shaped sticker :-) However, I saw that another little boy didn't get one when he refused to shake her hand. Last week, I added 'star' to my vocabulary, this week, I learned the Chinese word for 'clock'. I started to use 'Wow' to express wonderment.

Since I started school, elevenses has become an important ritual. Not to mention I get peckish if there's no school, and miss elevenses. I had Grandma wondering that my body clock had gone wonky when I begged and pleaded for my mid-morning snack. Fortunately Grace got the message before I starved to death ;-).

I started partially immersing my head in the bath for laughs. Mommy was worried that I would choke on bath water. Grandma has decided to use less bubble bath in my tub from now on. I just need a snorkel and some flippers now ;-)