Friday!

Finally home after an exhausting week, but very good. The kids went home at around 1:00 after 5 days and 4 nights and me sleeping over in a tent Monday night and Thursday night. The nights are getting more comfortable, i actually have to cover up when sleeping outside now. My fleece coat also wasn't enough so I ended up putting my legs inside my Osprey pack to keep a little warmer and it worked pretty well actually...

This week consisted of beach games Monday, with me leading "the water tube" which is a 5" pvc pipe with holes drilled in it and the kids need to fill it up by running into the sea and bringing back water while the other members of the group plug the holes. It's crazyness and it's pretty funny watching the kids that don't want to get wet or sandy get drenched when they or someone near them accidentally lets go of a hole.

Tuesday was 6 hours of kayaking, ugghh, i'm a little bit done with kayaking for a bit, 11 sessions in 7 days wore me out...

Wednesday was the Cheung Chau "Expedition" aka day trip to the island and walk back, it's hard to even call it a "hike" but the kids tend to think it's the hardest thing in the world at the time

Thursday was gorge setup and running a group through in the morning, eating lunch and running back up again in the afternoon. We encountered almost 200 screaming Chinese students and instructors participating in some sort of boot camp thing as we tried to get our groups up, they would push our kids out of the way and monopolize the entire track up. It was an unbelievable experience seeing the lack of safety they were employing. No helmets, stringing ropes of trees and roots (not the bolts in the rock that we use), using students to hold ropes while others traverse across a pool on a rope upside down, 2 helmets in the entire group, and the mass of about 25 people at the top of the waterfall and another 25 pushing people up the corner that you see Bryan climb up in my video clips a couple posts ago. It was such a recipe for disaster I couldn't even watch it, good thing our kids were really good and just hung out until the ridiculousness passed.

Today was the final tug of war, beach cleanup, and reading in the Pui O school, then they left.

Each day was at least from 7am to 9pm without any real breaks, so I'm ready for my 2 days off this weekend, then rigging the gorge next monday which i really enjoy doing so that's good.

I also learned how to run an espresso machine this week, i can make a latte, an americano, a macchiato, and a good ol' espresso, steam up some milk pour the frothy goodness on whatever you like and it's pure caffeine euphoria the rest of the day.

This weekend i think Katy and Jen and I will head out to Lamma a place we haven't been since we recorded "Lapsap Live on Lamma"

Also James (or American James) is coming back this Monday for 2 days before heading back to the motherland.