Hong Kong boasts more Rolls-Royces per capita than anywhere else on earth

Everything is so exciting right now.

My fantastic girls and i just finished our humongous project yesterday for our Major Methods course! It's an enormous weight lifted from our shoulders. It basically consisted of creating an entire curriculum pack for Liberal Studies, lesson plans, worksheets, teacher's guide, assessment tasks and marking schemes, justification for our rationale, teaching strategies and key concepts... After working non-stop for a few days and then spending a few frustrating hours battling with the printers at school, at 5:30 pm promptly, we slid our thick document to the Programme Office just as they were about to bring down the gate. Although it's not due until next week, our goal was to finish early as some of us were taking off for mini break...

... which is what i'm looking forward to next! Tomorrow we're off to the Philippines. We've booked ourselves at the Balicasag Dive Resort for the first night, a ferry ride then land transfer from Cebu, where we'll fly into. Apparently one of the best dive spots 'in the world' (?), Balicasag Island is only 25 hectares big, with the Dive Resort taking up 1.5 hectares of it, the only accommodation on the island. For the rest of the time we'll just take it easy, visit the famous Chocolate Hills and see what we see.

Tonight we had dinner with Aunty Ivy, Uncle Hong, Calvin and Ivy's father in Tai Koo (see pic). They are back in HK for their annual visit and over Peking duck and other yummy dishes, we caught up over the past few months (we stayed with them in Toronto during our Xmas visit - but had to run off to catch our flight back in the wee hours of the morning without saying goodbye due to our inability to read flight times correctly!). Tomorrow they leave for a couple of weeks of travelling in Japan but it looks like we'll just miss each other by an hour at the airport. No matter, we'll see them again when they come back to HK after Japan; it will be interesting to see how they found the experience. Notice in the pic, Matt is holding a huge bag. Inside are 4 boxes of heavy Harvest Crunch cereal lovingly delivered halfway around the world.

Packing just completed and if we go to bed now, we can squeeze in one sleep cycle. We want to get to the airport fairly early-ish to buy a magnetic Chinese Chess board. We bought a set at the Hong Kong History Museum the other week when we went to visit it (a great place with lots of fantastic displays!) and so it's become our new brain game of choice. Right, bed.