When in China ...

Thursday 10th July

Well the weaning began this weekend. I had baby rice twice (mummy thought that this was a good idea as we are in China and it is their staple food). I really enjoyed it as long as I was allowed to hold the spoon - it is great to finally be able to put things in my mouth without mummy and daddy saying "Oh Eleanor!" However, mummy went and spoilt it on Tuesday by giving me cold orange goo (aka carrot), I was not taken with it at all and pulled a face before it even went in my mouth. It was a bit too lumpy, so mummy said she will add more water/milk before we try it again - so back to the baby rice on Weds again - mmm yummy!! The only good thing about the carrot was that as it is bright orange it made loads and loads of mess - especially when I dropped my spoon on the floor!!

On Saturday we had a HOT day with NO rain - finally!! So after lunch in the plaza we headed off to the swimming pool. As it was so hot we went in the indoor pool and I got to use my rubber ring seat which was nice with daddy whizzing me around the pool. I am still not certain that I like the water but I am beginning to be a bit less worried about sinking!!

On Tuesday we went for lunch with WAG Jan. She came over to DB to visit us which was very nice. It is still very rainy though so we had to sit indoors, but we had a nice Italian and then showed Jan around the Plaza. She is heading back to the UK for a couple of weeks, so we are hoping that she takes all this rain with her!!

Finally today we had some visitors. Umesh and Lisa arrived on the train from China. We went to meet them in Kowloon and had to get a bus to Sunny Bay, then the MTR to Kowloon Station - which was exciting as neither of these journeys we had done before. However, when we got to Kowloon we discovered that when the website says Kowloon it actually meant one of the many stations in Kowloon, so we had to get a taxi out to Hung Hom!! It was really nice to see them though and they are staying with us until Saturday when they jet off to Kuala Lumpur - I will let you know what we get up to in next weeks blog.

Bye for now

Ellie x