National Day

It was so great meeting Lynne and Emilio at the train on Wednesday night! We went straight to Soho for a drink and a catch up, as it's such an easy local place to go to.

I had my first CPD day (professional development) on Thursday. I chose to do Chinese drumming - ok not so relevant to the library but it was so much fun! Afterwards we met Lynne and Emilio for dinner and took them to Rat Alley.

Yesterday was a public holiday, for National Day. But most things were still open, so we went up to the flower market and bird market, and another market at Mong Kok, and then Ladies Markets at Mong Kok. Lynne and I both found lots of things we "needed", and poor Emilio was very patient with us.

For National Day they had a little parade that went right under my bedroom window, and some fireworks down at the Harbour. It was nice sitting on the stairs at the harbour, until the first cracker went off and we discovered we were in a terrible spot to watch them. We nearly got trampled to death as thousands of people on the stairs behind us came hurtling down and went running towards a better position! We didn't bother running with them, we just finished our drinks and went for dinner.