Take a Hike!

Another day...out of school! Yes, after just two days back, HKIS kids had the day off because of a scheduled teacher in-service. So, what to do?? Take a hike!

I have been hiking a number of times in Hong Kong, but today was the first time that I've been on an extended hike with Lydia...and a huge group of other people. One of the moms I hike with organized a "School's Out" mom/kid hike for this morning. The invitation went out saying "the more the merrier" and to bring others along. As you can see, we were quite a merry bunch!

The route was a very easy one - all downhill around the Tai Tam Reservoir in the country park near our apartment.
The hike organizer said that it would take about 1-1.5 hours with really, really slow kids. I think our group may have completed the hike in record time - in slow time, that is. Still, it was all about having fun along the way. Here are a small sampling of photos from our outing:

Looking at a big spider:

Looking at giant fish and turtles in the reservoir:

Being very silly...

Nearly to the finish line. This poor little boy couldn't quite break into the "girls club":

The kids had a blast and it burned a ton of energy and everyone had lots of fun.

We'll have plenty of opportunities for future School's Out hikes since next week there's a public holiday, the next week is parent/teacher conferences, two weeks later is fall break...seriously, when will the school year really start??