Swim Meet in Hong Kong

I coach swimming to 6-12 year olds and at the end of February, I was lucky enough to be asked to go with the team to the South East Asia swimming competition in Hong Kong. We are not a big school and our program is fairly recreative rather than competitive but they swam well. 

It was host by non other than the Canadian International School of Hong Kong which was pretty nostalgic for me. 

A very Canadian entrance.

On one of their bulletin boards....love it.

Hong Kong is incredibly hilly and I am completely intrigued by it. This is the view of the soccer field at Canadian Int. School.

We actually used a community pool which was beautiful.

Here's our awesome little team.

The Canadian Team jacket. We sat right behind them. 

The buildings are more dense than I even imagined.

I am not so familiar with the HK cuisine except that we ate really well and almost always noodles. Stores like this had ever dried type of seafood imaginable.

Victoria Peak is like Montreal's Mount Royal only steeper and I think higher. We took the local bus up and a crazy tram down. Those are our swimmers on the terrace. One of the kids uncles is a tour guide in HK and he offered to take us out and about which was a real thrill for teh kids since we had a full day to spare before heading home.

That's me...wish I had another sweater.

Beautiful views.

Of course some shopping was involved.

We took the tram, bus, subway...all incredibly well organized and easy to use. You can see forever down the aisles.

Our end.

So many people!

We walked as a group through here and I have no idea how we didn't lose anyone.

Moi