Cody’s final day off for Chinese New Year was the most gorgeous day! We have been having warm, pleasant weather, but this day in particular also had clear, blue skies. That is one thing I always notice when we visit Utah: the incredibly beautiful blue skies. We don’t get that intense blue a lot here; whether from the smog, pollution, dust, cloud cover, haze—whatever you want to call it—we don’t get a true deep blue all that frequently. But this day was it. I hope you’ll forgive me that I took about a million pictures because it was simply too stunning not to. Even going through these, I’m getting almost giddy about how incredibly lovely the day was.
We started our little adventure by taking a bus from Sai Wan Ho to Shek O. These pictures are out the window overlooking Tai Tam.
This is as we approach Shek O.
A view of Shek O Beach as we head down the mountain.
Shek O has a gorgeous beach, which made me wonder why we hadn’t been there yet. Cody actually ventured over to it last summer when we were still in Utah without him. He said it was body to body people. Oh yah, that’s why.
The children played a little in the sand (still a little too chilly to swim. Obviously.).
I liked this lady’s hat. Think it would look good on me?
We pulled the kiddos away from the sand to take a little walk through the town and over to a small hike.
The little hill on the right was the mountain we conquered. :) Such a gorgeous day. I still can’t get over it. 
Everything looked so beautiful in the sunlight and blue, blue skies, I just kept clicking away…
On the way to the hiking trail, Cody and Jade walked down to the water to throw rocks in. I kept taking lots of pictures…
Then we hit the trail.
Top of the mountain!
Hey, wait. I want my picture with the blue sky too! Please can I have my picture with that lovely blue sky? Love Jade’s face in that first pic; the sun was too bright so she was squinting.
More blue sky pics! It got a little chilly up there.
Well, wouldn’t you know, they found more sand to play in. 
More blue skies…
Getting tired of this yet? ‘Cause I’m sure not. 
Heading down the mountain/hill.
Oh wait. Since I’m already trigger happy, we need more pictures of Ridge. He kind of gets hidden in that pack!
Back through the town.
And to the local temple.
Then we passed by a place to play miniature golf…of sorts. Jade, of course wanted to play, so hey, why not! The place was made of concrete, complete with Chinese structures. We found it hilarious! 
Jade and Ridge found it entertaining.
They may need some work on their form though.
We ended our day in Shek O at a pizza place we spotted by the temple. Kinda fun and the kids sure loved it!
1 comment:
Wow, that really WAS a lovely day! I was very taken with those pictures. Especially the ones of the water and the rocks. Gorgeous. I loved the video of Ridge's first golfing experience. The boys laughed really really hard at Ridge trying to climb in the ball hole. Let's face it, I did too. What a fun day. I can't wait for Sam to be done with school so I can actually see him and have fun family days like this!
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