David, Grace, Sarah and Emma Bellis

Featuring Angela, Andrew, Charlene, Vince, Kaman, Kam, Elizabeth, Colin, and an elephant.

After dinner on Jeff's 50th he shared with us some of the wisdom he had accumulated over the years. Apologies for the breaks in the film - turns out Jeff had a lot more wisdom than we expected, so I kept running out of space on the camera, having to delete something, and start recording again ...

If the weather is fine, we end up at a beach most weekends. Deepwater Bay is the nearest, so it's a popular choice. Here's Emma on a recent visit:

We were lucky to have Jeff spend his fiftieth birthday here in Hong Kong. Here are some photos from the big day, featuring Jeff, Minnie, Engee, Angela, Boots, Belinda, Grace, Andrew, Gonard, Andrew & Mei-Ling, Michael, David, and several glasses of beer.

Featuring Ji-Ching, Lok-Him, Ernest, Naomi, Dawn Ching-Ching, Wing-Fong, Sai-Bee's younger brother, his nana, See-See, Victoria, Karen, Sai-Bee, Charlotte, Cheuk-Wan, Kelly, Boots, Engee, Ashley, Angie, Elena, Angela, Andrew, Sarah's kindergarten class, Kam, Vince, Kaman, Rem, Donald's wife, Stew, Donald, and Jeff.

A couple of old videos from when Sarah was getting the hang of blowing bubbles. The first is from May 2005:

and the second from June 2005 (and yes, despite appearances she did own other clothes too!):

This week was Sarah's last week before the summer holiday. The teachers arranged a morning 'swimwear fashion show', followed by lots of splashing around. Here are the parents and pupils strutting their stuff on the catwalk:

After the fashion show it was time to put the swimming costumes to good use! Si-Ming's mum was first down the slide, followed by all the children:

Then we put away the camera and joined in the mayhem - we spent the next 30 minutes with everyone throwing water at everyone else. Great fun!

Yvonne, Engee, Andrew, Dawn, Karen, Kelly, Jack, Cheuk-Wan, Angela, Kam assuming the usual pose, Victoria, Lara, Mark, Maya, Jasmine, Ling-ling, Naomi, Benny, Cindy, Chiu:

First audition:

Semi-final:

Final:

Interview on the Today Show:

Singing on the Today Show:

Singing Caruso: