Shatin Park

 This morning Mike went to school to work on report cards (the end is near!), so I thought I'd be on my own with the girls for the day. But he surprised us by coming home at lunch, and we felt like there was still time in the day to be ambitious and do something fun. We decided to do check out Shatin Park, which is close to Snoopy World. I had been there with my mom's group easter egg hunt (which I took pictures and meant to post but never did). It's a really nice park along the river with actual grass and playgrounds and lots of open space. The sun came out, and we were pretty hot and sweaty, but that didn't stop Annie from having fun with hopscotch. 

 We also came across a little street dance happening with a live band playing some lively Chinese numbers. 

 They all seemed to know a choreographed line dance, but we couldn't watch for long because we were looking for the bathroom.

 The river was a nice change of scenery from the ocean and harbor views that there usually is in Hong Kong. 

 And then we rented this bike for an hour so we could ride along the river. We didn't know that's what we'd be doing when we left the house! So fun! And Mike was such a good sport riding us around. I took a turn and almost crashed us so he took over again. Oops! It was harder than it looks!
 These next pictures are of my view from the backseat taken as we zoomed (haha... more like meandered) down the bike trail. 

 A close-up view of the dance!

 A close-up family shot. The first one that the guy took was completely blurry. Take what you can get, I guess!

After we returned the bike, we went to "Triple O's" which is an off-shoot of White Spot. We were so surprised the first time we saw one of those in Hong Kong. Mike's bacon cheeseburger was well-deserved. Mine... not so much...better have salad tomorrow!