Happy Chinese New Year! Everything is shuttered here for four days starting Thursday night (New Years' Eve) through Monday, and work and normal life will resume on Tuesday. The upcoming year is the year of the dog. Last year was the year of the chicken.
For the second year in a row we find ourselves staying put in Hong Kong and celebrating the holiday here. The weather today was phenomenal - sunny and a high of 70 degrees. Guess our cold spell here is over? "Winter" has been getting shorter and shorter here every year.
We took advantage of it and wandered out for a mid afternoon stroll, heading to our favorite outdoor spot, Sun Yat Sen park, where we saw a ton of other families with small children, all camped out on picnic blankets with the same stroller (we have the babyzen yoyo+) parked alongside. Guess this is the demographic that skips the airport and travel madness!
The park is one of the few areas near us with a huge swath of grass that you can step on and lie down on (GASP), and it has a phenomenal view of the harbor, to boot. Most parks here are concrete with benches and chairs built in, no grass, but a lot of potted trees and plants, so SYS park is definitely special.
We headed out with the sunglasses on Lola.
She also had on her super cute teddy bear hoodie (why are baby clothes made 100x cuter when ears are attached?) and managed to stay awake in her stroller the entire walk to the park, where as soon as I wrestled her into the Ergobaby she zonked out.
On our walk back, we managed to get a few pictures outside, to memorialize Lola's first lunar new year!
We took advantage of it and wandered out for a mid afternoon stroll, heading to our favorite outdoor spot, Sun Yat Sen park, where we saw a ton of other families with small children, all camped out on picnic blankets with the same stroller (we have the babyzen yoyo+) parked alongside. Guess this is the demographic that skips the airport and travel madness!
The park is one of the few areas near us with a huge swath of grass that you can step on and lie down on (GASP), and it has a phenomenal view of the harbor, to boot. Most parks here are concrete with benches and chairs built in, no grass, but a lot of potted trees and plants, so SYS park is definitely special.
We headed out with the sunglasses on Lola.
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