Gerry and the Birthday Party

Gerry is now 8 years old.  Yeah, really.

To celebrate his eighth birthday, we threw a small party with a personalised cake.

The cake - topped with lots of chocolatey goodness!

The birthday boy ...

... helping to cut the cake

In the above picture, we have taken all the various chocolate pieces off the cake.  This makes it easier to cut but does leave it a little bare.

Somehow, most of the chocolate ended up on Gerry's plate.  Not sure how that happened.

Gerry smiles despite wanting to hurry up and eat the cake.

Gordon's Christmas show

Back in January, Gordon's school put on a show for the parents.  This is something they do every year and as with prior years, we took some time off work to go see the show.

The kids all lined up and ready

Pictures with the stars

I even managed to get a picture with Gordon!

And a random picture with one of his friends

Windsor country home

Wow - can't believe that we are already in 2014.  2013 really flew by which in many ways is sad, primarily as acknowledging that makes me feel old.  :(

Anyway, after receiving some more complaints from my dad about not posting enough pictures on this blog, I have decided (once again) to continue beating this old horse to see if it can be revived or whether it is in fact dead.  I guess time will tell...

So, to start off, I figured that I would post some sunny pictures for two reasons.

Firstly, its been bloody cold in Hong Kong lately so some sunny pictures will hopefully take my mind off the cold.

Secondly, I actually uploaded these pictures after my trip to the UK last year.  I thought I had scheduled the publication of them but alas, it appears I hadn't done so.  As such, here are some more pictures of my "recent" trip to the UK.

This is one of the hotels we stayed in while we were in England

It had a giant garden which we were able to explore

The kids relaxing in the lawn ...

... before going wild with the giant chess set.

My attempt to recreate the PR photo which attracted us to this hotel in the first place