The little man's beach trip

In November, C's school took a class trip to one of the beaches on our island. We left school on the bus and drove about twenty-five minutes. I was a chaperone for the trip, and my lovely little group of four boys decided the best possible place to sit on the bus was in the very back. I have a tendency to get sick in a vehicle that I am driving if the roads are bendy, and the trip to the beach was around multiple mountains, yippie! My group pretty much had to fend for the,selves on the bus, as I was solely focused on not losing my breakfast, but they did well.

Anyways, I was told we were about to the beach, so Imstarted looking out the window, when the bus suddenly stopped to let us off. We were in the middle of a road, with curves on both sides of us, and a cliff. We had to depart and walk single file about fifty yards before we reached a safe sidewalk to use.  Now we had about fifteen adults and sixty-five little, excited kids with us, talk about a chaperones nightmare! Amazingly, no one was killed or hit by a car before we made it to the beach, but then it was a free for all!

My group of boys were absolute lunatics and were covered head-to-toe in sand within the first ten minutes. In fact, every other adult was laughing because I was responsible for cleaning them up prior to lunch and the again before we left for school again. They decided tackle American football would be great fun, as evidenced by the pictures.

The beach was actually very beautiful, and one that I believe we will visit again. There were shark nets surrounding the swimming area, so we want to do a little investigating to see of this is a precaution or there are actually sharks that frequent the area. On a side note, Hong Kong is known to have a pink dolphin population, so maybe we do have lots of sharks here too.

C was also lucky enough that this trip took place while his NaNa and PaPa were here visiting. Mark, NaNa and PaPa took a taxi out to the beach and met us around lunch time. We had beautiful weather, so it was nice for them to see one of our beaches.

Finally, we ended the day with a community sand castle competition. My group did not succeed in winning the best design, but did dig the biggest trench, which is really all they accomplished!

Overall, it was a very fun day for all the adults and kids alike. Many fell asleep on the bus ride, including C :)