The New Season

It's been a busy week,
Monday - Canopy set up and make preparations for the camp on Tuesday that I was coordinating
Tuesday - Big Group welcome with 60 3rd graders and lead a group of 20 kids through biking, sand sculpture, and eco-scavenger hunt
Wednesday - Take down canopy, set up gorge and run a training on it, Irvin set up a Tyrolean traverse
Thursday - Woke up late....turned off alarm and went back to sleep...oops, ran in to work and ran a coasteering training, then ran biking in Mui Wo training in the evening
Friday - Camp was rescheduled so we worked on prep for upcoming camps then I ran a Tree I.D. session
Saturday - really lazy day, but worth it, maybe they should be paying me more with the amount of staff training I'm doing, also made pizza, think I'm getting the hang of it, just need a pizza stone for it to really come out good.

I think I'm waiting tables tomorrow, just over 12 months here and I've been able to completely avoid this until now, that's the deal for getting today off, it's a half day so it shouldn't be too bad.

Next week is:
Mon - Rope practice
Tues - Cheung Chau
Wed - Belay at the abseil
Thurs & Fri - ??

The Lapsap Band has been practising every day in preparation of taking their show on the road in random places across Lantau and Hong Kong. I'll have to get some recordings or video up soon

Time off (and some new pictures)

A quick post before bed,

Today, I ran one activity in the rotation with the corporate group that came in they arrived at 2pm and went straight into the beach games rotation we set up. Then they had dinner and awards and left at 7:30. We broke down and ate leftovers and i grabbed a couple boxes to hold me over the next two days.

We are having our Thanksgiving celebration hosted by T.I. on Friday, I want to make something, but I'm not sure yet, I was thinking cheezy cubed potatoes...




I also want to wish my special lady a very happy birthday :)

Running through the summer rain, trying to catch that evenin' train...

The kids had to navigate to various waypoints and do different tasks and answer questions. I was stationed at the Cheung Po-tsai cave and brought a few groups through the 75 meters (no one knows what you're talking about if you use feet here) of darkness. Then headed back to meet up for lunch and to catch the ferry back to Mui Wo (which is the ferry travel hub on Lantau).

We were supposed to do a 4-5 Kilometer hike (miles??) we were able to start it, but it started down-pouring so we ended up getting buses to pick us up after 45 minutes of walking. It was good to see the kids get challenged a bit with this, most did alright with it, for me it was business as usual. Coming from the Adirondacks, the land of a thousand 60 degree and rainy days (Yes that's Fahrenheit, I haven't wrapped my mind around Celsius just yet), I felt at home in my full set of rain gear and was bone dry when we got back; ready to set up camp and put the pot on....err wait this isn't ALE.... Ready to bring the kids to dinner and get ready for the indoor nightly activities.

The kids left Friday afternoon we did forum....err debrief about the week, I brought all my soaking wet stuff home to dry since the tent area is a huge mud puddle when it rains and we had our complimentary Friday beer and burger week ending get together