Cloudy Hill

If you look out our front doors, you can see a "mountain" called Cloudy Hill.  Tommy has asking to try to climb it for a while.  A few weeks ago we decided we would try to do part of it.  We went with the neighbor next door in Tommy's class and her mom. 

Cloudy Hill is the hill on the left. The path goes up the hill on the right then the hill on the left.

It was a hot day and it is about a 15 minute uphill walk through the neighborhood to get to the start of the path.  Several areas of the trail are so steep they have stairs instead of a path. 

Chloe and Tommy at the start

The kids did a really good job.  Once we got up the stairs, there was a nice breeze and it was a a nice walk.  We took plenty of water breaks.  There was nice area at the top of the first hill that had several benches as well as green bumpy walkway you are supposed to walk on without your shoes to massage your feet.  We all took a walk on it on the way down. 

Tommy on the trail

The bumpy walkway massages your feet.

We made it about halfway up before we decided to turn around and go back. 

View of our neighborhood from the top

The kids were tired on the way home, but they made it.  Tommy was really dragging once we got to the neighborhood.  He got home and told me he wasn't going to try to climb Cloudy Hill again for a long, long time.  The next morning, the weather was nice and Tom jokingly asked Tommy if he wanted to climb Cloudy Hill again.  Tommy seriously agreed, it is so funny how quickly they change their mind at this age.  Instead Tommy and I decided to take a walk on the bike path near our house.

The path is a nice flat path that runs along a river as well as the MTR train tracks.  Tommy enjoyed counting the trains we saw on the way (I think it was 12 MTR trains and 2 trains to China).  We ended up walking to the Tai Wo train station, about a 40 minute walk.  We were going to get an ice cream cone at McDonalds and walk home, but it was 10:15 in the morning and McDonalds wasn't serving ice cream yet.  Instead we decided to take the shuttle bus back to our neighborhood and get a drumstick at the grocery store.  It was a fun, active weekend. 

At the train station