Scorchio - a great weekend

After a truly exhausting week, and an extremely early night on Friday after rolling in from work at gone 8pm, the weekend really picked up!
Saturday morning, Rus and I adorned our summer clothes as the temperature is really high and sunny at the moment, and we went to Victoria Park, Causeway Bay. As it was Labour Day (1st May and coincidentally, my nephew, little Andrews 5th Birthday) the park was heaving with fillipino and chinese - all lining the sidewalks, the walkways over the roads, chattering and eating and enjoying the nice weather.
Rus showed me the boating lake, topiary gardens and on my request, we walked over to the harbour side and we walked along past all the boats moored. We also saw a guitar in the water acting as a buoy, which was quite novel.
When we were done with park, we caught the MTR to central and went to our favourite haunt in the nice weather, Pier 3 bar overlooking the piers, waterfront and all the famous bits of Hong Kong skyline. We polished off some grub, had a couple of drinks each in the shade and headed back home for a much deserved siesta - which ended up being around 3 hours (oops).
Finally, I finished my latest Uni assignment, which has taken up all my time out of working hours for a few weeks now and sent that off, ahead of the deadline on wednesday.

Today (sunday) we woke up leisurely and packed our sun tan lotion, beach towels, mosquito repellant and headed off to the piers again (note, that in our free time, we tend to steer clear of shopping, which seems to be the main past time here) and took the slow ferry to Lantau (again) and took the bus to Cheung Sha beach - this time with no fear of sunburn or mozzie bites, which generally are the quickest and most effective way of pissing me off....
When we got to the beach it was so hot we found a shady area and proceeded to soak up the atmosphere. Rus took some pics and I read a book other than Psychology or Social Sciences which was a nice change.
Spot of lunch at the Thai restaurant on the beach (which, is the second Thai establishment that we've been too that find it impossible to bring out 1) your food at the same time as your partners food and 2) your complete order!)
After waiting for the sunset (which happened behind a dirty great big mountain, so we missed it anyway) we took a bus trip back to the Mui Wo, had an icecream on the front and caught our ferry back to central.
Topped the day off with an Uncle Russ coffee for Rus, and a blister from my flip flops for me. All in all, a great day.
Love Emma x