How quickly another year is coming to an end. Seems like each year is getting shorter and shorter. We've been in Hong Kong for close to five years now. This was our third Christmas away from family. It's at times like this that I realise just how much I miss being home, surrounded by family. Thankfully, we've made some wonderful friends here in Hong Kong and this year were able to celebrate this festive season with some of them.
Setting up the tree at home
This year we had a second pair of very helpful hands!
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas..... (Christmas tree at 1881 Heritage in Tsim Tsa Tsui)
Enjoying the lights from the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Tsa Tsui
Hong Kong skkyline
View of the star ferry terminal from Kowloon
In keeping with my family tradition, we had a lovely Christmas Eve dinner with Alex and Deanna's family and the Arosti family. It was wonderful having everyone over at our home on this special night.
Stand-in grandparents for the night. Ryan "performing" his Mandarin poems for Peter Kung-kung and Fiona Poh-poh
Our Christmas Eve dinner spread
Man-of-the-house carving the big bird
Our family
Italian influenced desserts, thanks to the Arosti family
Boys and their toys
The girls out on their shopping excursion
Enjoying a good laugh with great friends surrounded by good food
Marco and his parents who were visiting from Italy
Mama and Daddy's rule - one present on Christmas Eve so of course he chose the biggest one under the tree!
The little Missy was terrified of the "scawy dinosaur"
Patiently waiting for her turn
Bright and early on Christmas morning - straight for the presents
Look what Santa brought - she loved it!
Fighting robots, just what a 5 year old boy loves
This little boy's dream come through - Ultraman's gun. Daddy and Mama made an exception on our no-guns rule just this once
My first bike
We met up with some of Ryan's ISF classmates on Boxing Day for a barbeque at our place. The weather was just perfect, cold but sunny so the kids had a great time running around in the playground and riding around on their scooters.
ISF friends (Oscar, Toby, Katrina and Kashie) and their little siblings (Ben, Scarlett, Natasha and Mia, Kathleen is missing from this pic)
He Ban Mums, we're also missing one here (Michelle, Ruth and Irene)
Coming down the "up up up up" (slide in Mia-language)
No adult supervision was needed, the kids just settled themselves down and decided to have a drawing session
One's busy drawing, the other busy scribbling!
But there's always time for a cuddle
Playing school
Multi tasking - drawing and reciting their Chinese poems
Never too busy to pose for Daddy
The I-"toys" generation
Totally engrossed
Oh what a feeling...
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