Hunter and I are having a night at home together as Jill is out hiking tonight.  Since we can't leave Hunter at home by himself she usually stays at home while I go hiking with our trailwalker team and then she goes hiking with a different team on a different day.  I drove her up Golden Hill road to the top of a mountain so she could catch up with Mike and Mark tonight for their hike.  I think they are planning on going for about 30 km so they'll be back sometime after midnight. The road up the mountain was literally covered with herds of monkeys! I don't know if a group of monkeys is a herd but thats the only way I can describe it.  There must have been thousands of monkeys running around on the road. Some of them wouldn't even move for the car so I had to carefully maneuver my way through. Hunter enjoyed seeing all the monkeys!

Last Saturday night I went for a good hike with David and Adam. I don't know how far we went but it took us about 6.5 hours. We got a little bit lost when we decided to take an unknown road down the mountain instead of sticking to our original plan. We ended up in some village that only had one road going to it and unfortunately the only road in was the one we had walked down for 20 minutes. Luckily we found a path that did take us down the mountain and back to civilization and we had pizza hut waiting for us back at our place. It's really quiet ad beautiful up on the mountains at night.

We don't have school for the next seven days so we 're going to stay at Disneyland on Sunday night. Hunter is very excited about staying there overnight with "Jeff Wiggle." I don't know why but he's convinced Jeff from with wiggles will be staying with us at Disneyland too.

I've added some hiking pictures and a picture of the monkeys I took with my phone.

Well, once again it's ended up being a few months since I've gotten around to writing a blog again. Maybe this time around we'll be more consistent...We had a good summer holiday back in Canada but we're excited to be starting another year here in Hong Kong. Over the summer we found out we need to move again but fortunately we've found a place we like so we're moving at the end of October. Our new place is at the Gold Coast on the other side of Hong Kong and it's a little bit further from school.  It's really nice out there and it is next to a beach and there are good biking trails nearby so we can still do all the things we do now. It's also close to Disneyland. We've bought season passes so we'll be spending a lot of time with Mickey and Goofy.

Jill is not working at the school this year so we decided to not have a helper work for us any more. We are really enjoying having our house to ourselves again. Jill has been doing a little bit of freelance personal training in the evenings and she is enjoying that much more than teaching. We also bought a car and have found that we are able to do so much more now as a family because it we don't need to ride the bus for an hour to get somewhere that takes 15 minutes to drive.  We bought a 1997 Audi A4 and we love it! Used cars are ridiculously cheap here. Driving on the left side of the road has been easy to adjust to but figuring out how to get places has been a little tricky.

On November 7th Jill and I and two other teachers are entered in the Oxfam Trailwalker. It's a 100km race through the mountains of Hong Kong.  We have to complete it together as a team of 4 so we've been doing some training to get ready. Last weekend we did the 2 hardest sections of the course in 6.5 hours. The course has 10 sections so it will probably take us around 30 hours to finish the actual race.  The hike last weekend was really fun because we went at night. It's really peaceful and beautiful up on the mountains at night. The point of the race is to raise money for oxfam so we need to raise quite a bit of money as one of the conditions of entering the race. If anyone wants to donate some money that would be awesome!

School has been going really well so far this year. It's nice to already know all the kids and to teach the same subject over again.