July 13, 2004
If I leave dates out, it means I spent the day at Grandma's, got myself stuffed with food, and played video games the whole day. That was mainly July 12th, 8 hours of Metal Gear Solid and I'm now on the last boss, yaaay. In addition I watched Harry Potter 1 today too and that was the whole day.
July 13th was a bit similar except that I played at my Calvin's place with their ps2. I got to play Robotech Battlecry for the first time (such an old game, but still quite good). I watched Harry Potter 2 today as my cousin actually has both of them. Now I'm a bit filled in so I can see Harry Potter 3 with my cousin later in the month.
July 14, 2004
July 14th is beach day and site seeing day for me. It seemd to have been planned while Calvin and I were playing games yesterday. A problem with my dad's side of the family is that everyone pretty much argues with each other on what's the best course of action. So we spent about an hour just getting ready. The family first went to Stanley Plaza near Repulse Bay. It's a tourist plaza because there is a nice view at the bay and you can watch the cargo ships come in. The food there was very good, but very expensive. Everyone else besides my family wanted to order water, but the price of water is unlisted (if it's unlisted, assume it's expensive). Oh well, after that we walked around the area and stumbled upon a toy store selling BB guns and other toys. My brother got a Beyblade stadium and Dad and I were digging through the water toys as they had detacheable torpedo engines that we were searching for in a long time.
After walking around and paying for our parking there, we went to the beach at Repulse Bay. They have a very small parking lot so you can't over populate the beach with people (even if you could, the sun would drive most people away). Also the entire beach is evenly planted with trees throughout the beach so that there are areas of shade so you don't have to bring a big umbrella or tent. It makes the beach much nicer to be at. Anyways, I didn't want to start up any electronics here as the point of the beach is to enjoy the sand and water. I asked dad if there was a shovel and pail I could use to make a sand castle. I got a sieve and a pail instead, but the sieve was just as good as a shovel because I was dealing with moist chunky sand most of the time. The first tower I attempted failed because I used dry sand instead of moist sand. The next few towers I made worked out well. We also had to move the mats we were sitting on to accomodate the change in position of the sun. I built a sand castle (6 towers in a 2x3 rectangle), but I spent a good amount of time preventing the younger cousin Ivan from throwing rocks and breaking the castle (He did destroy 1/4 of one of the towers by doing that). I kept his naughty behaviour under control by keeping an eye on him, and I had to continue to tell my little brother to BE CAREFUL around the place, because he's a klutz. When it was finished, we took pictures near the tiny fort, and then it was time to go. Aw, no swimming, but I might go back with our other relatives from England later on. On our drive back, Ivan and bro both fell asleep from exhaustion? Hmmm, I should be the tired one since I built most of the castle, and kept them from destroying it. Oh well, when we almost got home, Ivan threw up his ice cream from lunch, and the stench overwhelmed my little bro (who was sitting next to Ivan) that my bro also started regurgitating his dessert too. Luckily everyone else is fast enough to contain the projectiles in plastic bags, and aim their heads downward. We were planning pizza, eariler on since HK pizza is VERY good with chunky toppings. It's very expensive too, but since the 2 kids were not feeling well, we made healthier foods for them.