Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Swimming Fun!!

Today was the 2nd Anual Hilltop Swimming Gala! Hilltop is the name of the apartment/house where my grandma lives. There's a huge swimming pool downstairs, so every year, during the summer, there's a swimming party open for anyone who lives in Hilltop. People who don't live in Hilltop could also go I guess, but nobody else knows about it. :P

My brothers, parents, and I were supposed to go eat lunch with my grandparents today, but we didn't have enough time because we had to make it to the swimming thing. We went to a Japanese restaurant where I ate the "Eel over Rice." It's so good! If any of you every go to a Japanese restaurant, try Ell over Rice. That's what it's usually called. It's also called "Unagi," I think.
<---My 2 year old cousin Will
We went home to wait for my cousin so we could go down together. For the Swimming Gala, there was a huge inflatable water obstacle course with a slide at the end. I only went on it once because I'm scared to go on the slide. For some reason, whenever I jump in the water, water always gets into my nose and it feels weird. Water still gets in my nose even if I blow out as I'm jumping into the water! Anyway, there's also a bunch of free food and snacks there! I didn't eat much though because we're still going to have dinner later. There was soda, like Coke, Mountain Dew, Sprite, Cream Soda, and some other drinks. For the food, there were chicken wings, fried curry spring roll, 2 types of pasta, curry fish balls, curry beef balls, Char Siu, mini sausage, regular sized sausage, and some other stuff. There was so much food! Well, I guess they should have a lot of food because there were so many people there. It's so sad that my other cousins couldn't come because one of them has a cold. They will only be coming for the dinner, but they have not arrived yet. The picture from left to right: Byron, brother (Mark), me, brother (Matthew)


Ok! Now I'm watching T.V., but it's showing commercials right now. Everyone left about 35 minutes ago, and my brother (Mark) went with my cousin (Byron) to his house for a sleepover. Byron is older than Faith and Will (my other cousins), but still younger
than my brothers and I.

When everyone was still here, we ate dinner and played around for a while. Will (2 years old) really likes cars and stuff, so he was looking out the big window and he kept on saying, "double decker!" In Hong Kong, there are 2 storied buses. So that's what it is. He can't really say it though. :P Also, when I gave those fruit gummies to Faith and Will (individually packaged), Will started being really hyper and threw the packages of gummies everywhere. He was laughing and screaming and he was so happy! It's really funny! And he started stomping on them! I have a video (Mark helped me take it), but he already calmed down so he wasn't as active. I can't put the video here because it doesn't work. :( I put a picture though!
Picture: Bottom-Will (with the bottle), me, Faith
Middle-brother (Mark), cousin (Byron)
Top-brother (Matthew)



2 comments:

Rhea said...

nice Jane! sounds super fun...
Miss u a lot.. eat extra eel on rice for me!
---Rhea

Unknown said...

Hey jane!! i tried the unagi thing before and it was yummy!! i don't really like the eel because the bones feel funny when i swallow, but i like the taste! I really like the rice with the sauce. I thought you said that you didn't like china!! It sounds SOOOO fun!! I wish i was there with you! Faith looks really cute!! The nose and water thing reminds me of karina because last time we went swimming (last week) she wouldn't jump into the water and didn't like getting splashed because it went up her nose, and then she would start complaining a bit, then i say sorry and it's all good!! (sorry if you are reading this karina!!) It seems like there is always alot of food!! which also reminds me about how we were talking about how we always talk about food. i hope you remember. HAHA!! Your cousin Will sounds like he is very entertaining! You know, tomorrow in level 7 there is going to be like 6 people!!!! I hope we do fun stuff!! well, i think i had better rap this up so BYE!! HAVE MORE FUN!!!


~Qian Yi