I started out the day by meeting friends for brunch at Wagyu, we chatted over coffee and delicious food for 2.5 hours. I ordered Eggs Benedict with asparagus & ham, one of the best I've had. After brunch we did a little window shopping (walking off our meal) and tried to book our Phuket, Thailand Easter trip but no flights were available. I headed home to relax and get ready for my first Rugby match. My friend Leith's husband Nathan is the Hong Kong Rugby team trainer and they invited me to go with them to watch the season final play offs. This would be
my first time watching a live Rugby match (I starting watching it on TV once I moved here).
Nathan was very patient with me and explained the rules and reasoning behind the game. What I can remember is Rucking (A play in Rugby in which a mass of players gathers around a ball dropped by a tackled ball carrier, with each player attempting to gain possession of the ball by kicking it to a teammate), Scrum (A play in Rugby in which the two sets of forwards mass together around the ball and, with their heads down, struggle to gain possession of the ball.) and that is about it for terminology!!! We watched the finals and the crowd really gets into, singing their team song (the only word sung is "Valley" (team name) to the tune of "Amazing Grace") cheering for their team and drinking beer. It was fantastic, really rough play with no padding. I can't image how bad their knees and shoulders are after a game. After the game we wandering around the area Jordan and found an Indian restaurant and it was so good!!! Not too spicy, just perfect.
Sunday, March 15th
Happy Birthday Mary, wish I was there to go out for dinner or pedicures:)
I was up early to catch a taxi to the train station for a 35 minute ride to Tung Chung station on Lantua Island. I had made plans to meet my friends Cathy & Alex at Ngong Ping cable car for the ride up and the plan to hike down. Yes, we are hiking down that mountain... I was very thankful the weather was perfect, around 75 degrees with a nice breeze and low humidity.
Here we are before the hike drinking our Starbucks under Big Buddha, don't we look great? Too bad I don't have a photo of us after the hike. It took us two hours to get down, and we only stopped once to take a couple photos. The incline was pretty steep at some points and my knees were not very happy with the activity but we made it through. Afterwards we had lunch which was delicious as I was famished. The next couple days I was pretty sore but glad I did the hike. We made plans to hike again next weekend, I think it will be a lot harder!!!
