Showstoppers

Our competition this weekend was Showstoppers in San Mateo.  It was pretty exciting because my friend Bella came to watch us dance.  Thanks for coming out Bella! 

Platinum 1st Place for Dancin' Fool

Gold 1st Place for The Beat Goes On

My medals!

With our tap teacher, Ms Meredith.

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

For school this year, we had to make Leprechaun Traps.  We set them up at school on Thursday to see if we would catch one over the weekend. (There was no school on Friday)  With some help from Mom and Dad and Brendan, we made a super cool Leprechaun Trap.

What does the Leprechaun want?  The pot of gold.

Where's the pot of gold?  At the end of the rainbow.

The leprechaun will see my rainbow and know there's a pot of gold,

then, as he gets closer, he'll see that he has to climb the golden ladder

to get to the gold....and then oops, he'll fall into the trap at the top of

the hill.  Ha ha!  Gotcha!

Pot of Gold

Pot made from half a plastic egg and a large button, glued together,

painted green and then sprinkled with glitter.

Gold coins made from hole punches of chocolate gold coin wrapper.

Do you see the 4 leaf clovers?  Those are taken from a flower lei.

They were 5 leaf flowers, so we pulled one leaf off and made them

4 leaf clovers and glued straws on them.  Then placed them in the field.

 It's raining, it's pouring...and we're on the open cable car in San Francisco.  Does that make sense?  Oh well, we still had a good time and didn't get too wet.

It's cold.  Brrr

But hot chocolate always hits the spot!

Meet the cousins

We went to Uncle Steve and Auntie Jen's house to hang out with Mom's cousins.  I love going to Uncle Steve's cuz he has an XBox.  There are no remotes, you just wave your hand and it sees you!  Amazing.  You can also command it to do different things.  Awesome.

Didn't eat much pizza...because I was rushing to get back to the video games...

Checking up on Elle

All the little cousins

Chasing the girls or the girls chasing me?

They're chasing me!!!

HK : Other things we did.

Here are the rest of the HK pictures.  We did lots of fun stuff.

Arriving at the airport.

We've got a lot of luggage!

At Uncle Dominic's

A visit to Ah Tai's house.  She was happy to see us. 

Auntie Kasie and Elle were there too!

No visit to HK is complete without a ride on the Star Ferry.  Too

bad it's so foggy...as it was most days we were there.

New doors on the MTR platform.

Silver Star - Star Ferry

Star Ferry Pier

Checking out what's for lunch, Lamma Island

Beach near Yung Shue Wan, Lamma Island

Lamma Island

Hiking from Yung Shue Wan to Sok Kue Wan

Uphill

Entertaining Elle

New friend, a cousin

We eventually played well together.

Tux fitting at the seamstress at the local market.

Tim Ho Wan...wanted to try, but the wait is crazy.

Trying to get a number...but we could not wait 3+ hours.

Bird market

The largest grasshoppers I've ever seen

Shopping in Mong Kok

That wooden structure is made without the use

of nails.  Chi Lin Nunnery.

Nan Lian Gardens, with Mom's friends from CUHK

Being a good big brother to Jayden.

He liked to hold my hand.

Ipad dinner

Making Elle laugh

Great Grandma's 90th birthday dinner

Before the wedding families dinner at HK Country Club

Yup, we're in suits and were on the playground.  SO?

Mom with cousins

Tiffany, Kasie, Ryan, Mom, Collette, Brian and Taeko

Mom looks surprisingly tall...

Tram ride.

Dinner with Caleb

We had to eat in the kitchen nook...huh?

We had fun playing together.

At the wedding, with Gung Gung

A visit to the cemetery...to see great grandpa and his parents.

So that's him, huh?

Ready to go home?

This taxi was crazy.  6 phones?