Long time between drinks... literally!

Yes, I have been a very slack blogger. What can I say. Guilty as charged. My excuse - um er arh - no real excuse so I won't even try to make one up. Instead I will try to summarize the last 5 months as quickly as possible without boring you all :)

Since I last posted in April, we have had a few weekends away. We took off to Sanya for a weekend - the Hawaii of China (sits on the same latitude). It is the southern most point of China and a quick 2 hour flight from HK. It is THE place for Chinese tourists and for the Russians - a quick 7 hour direct flight for them to sunshine! Had you gotten in years ago, it was the place to buy a piece of real estate - now it is very expensive. The rate of development is quite astonishing - they are building approx 19 new resorts in the next 3 years along a great coastline. We had a super weekend - Juz played golf, I went the gym, we played tennis and the resort we stayed at has the best games arcade - including two full sized bowling allies!

April, May and June saw us with lots of visitors - we have the tourist route down pat now!! Lots of great things to do and see. We had an awesome few days with Karen and Gai including stops at the races and some of our fav restaurants. Tom, Xuda, Arna and Peter all came for a long weekend in June and again, we ate and drank our way around HK!!! When Michelle came we did the same - eat, drink and hike!! We had a super time - including Royal Wedding watching! I wll let the pictures tell the story of these few months.

In June it started to get hot...so our hiking stopped and we only managed a few games of tennis - we did however manage to keep training for a half marathon that was taking place at the end of June. A week before we were due to go run this half, we discovered I was pregnant (but we will get to that later in this post). We still went to KL and Juz had a great race - he came something like 38th out of 2000 people - not too bad if we do say so ourselves!

June also saw our little boy turn 4. Yes, there was cake and yes, he is now on a diet.... Our coffee table is the perfect height for him, so he thinks it is his bar! He is pretty happy these days as he does not have to go to the Dogotel anymore when we go away. Zuni, our great helper, comes and stays with him. The cooler weather will see us being able to walk him more often and for longer again.

July saw my lovely, amazing 15 year old God daughter, MacCallum, and her Nanna come and stay with us for a week. I had to go to work, but they still managed an amazingly busy week. And of course, when I was not at work we managed to be out eating! MJ got a super new hair cut (sorry Pete but you have to admit, she looks amazing) and we had a great girls day out shopping and being silly!! As you will see from the pics - Vegas was not left out!

Juz's birthday was in August so we headed to Phuket (we love being so close to be able to trip about for easy long weekends!). We sat by the pool, ate and Juz played golf. Thailand is one of our fave places in Asia - the food is always great, the people super friendly. We had a great steak dinner on the night of his Birthday once back in HK - he was a tad embarrassed when they sang happy birthday and bought cake etc - but secretly I think he loved it ;-)

A finally to September. I took a week off and we went to Samui. Juz played golf three times and I pretty much sat by the pool and read various books. We did go to the pub every day to watch either the RWC or the NRL.... We weren't huge fans of Samui. perhaps if we were in our 20s again :). Still, was a nice, relaxing week and again, a very quick flight from HK.

So I briefly mentioned the heat earlier. OMG. You think you are ready for it - but you aren't. July and August, and most of Sept - were just hideous. It was too hot to breathe pretty much. 90% humidity coupled with 30 degree heat - it really is tough. Makes it hard to get motivated to get out and about much as it really is just too hot. Even laying at the beach was HOT. Walking down the road meant dripping wet clothes straight away. So no, we did not enjoy Summer in HK. We did save a few $ as we didn't venture out so much - but that was probably the only upside. THANKFULLY in the last week the heat and the humidty have both dropped and it is lovely weather again.

This week sees Carla arrive from the US for a week - cannot wait to see her and we have a long list of things to do whilst she is here. Juz has expanded his cocktail list - so we got an industrial strength blender to cope - and it is definitely getting a work out of yummy drinks and smoothies (all non alco at this point of course).

That's the last 5 months of our lives. I didn't think we had been that busy - but seems we were!!

And so - to our big news that many of you have been asking about. Wondering why I was getting so sluggish training for the half in 30 degree heat.... led to us discover we are expecting a bub. No wonder I was stuggling!! Thankfully the all day nausea I endured from week 7 to 16 weeks has passed and now we are getting ready to shop (and borrow :).

Our little man (yep, it is a boy) is due 14 Feb 2012. I am 20 weeks tomorrow - so 20 to go. We are planning to stay here in HK to have the bub - lots of logistics to work out around all of that yet but we have some time to do that. Suffice to say, Gma (my Mum) is super excited as this will be her first grand child, and the third for Juz's Mum. No  - we have no idea what to expect but we guess we will figure it out as we go :). For now my life has gone from working out cute drink outfits with perfectly matching shoes, to learning about cots and nappies!!

There you have it - one updated  bog :). Promise I will try and post again before the bub joins us!

G
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