Our CNY holiday was well spent.
We went visitation on Chu Yi. Ever since my paternal grandma passed on and my dad several years back, CNY visitation has become a much simpler affair. We spent about an hour at my eldest uncle’s place. We aren’t close to our extended family and didn’t even get to see some of the uncles and cousins. Then it was to my maternal grandma’s place where we spent another hour. Ah yee is in far, far away Paris. Visitation gets a little bit more boring without her companion.
However, the kids were happy to be dressed up in CNY clothes.
The 5 of them very much self entertained with the toys that we brought. And of course, they very much enjoyed the buffet-style self-service array of cookies and sweets and chocolates and CNY goodies. They couldn’t stop munching and the hosts were all so encouraging, even to mummy. CNY does great harm to mummy’s body – fat! Hohoho. Then, we spent the rest of the day at MIL’s place. Daddy Lim and I very much enjoyed another round of steamboat. I like steamboat. I am missing steamboat already. Lol.
Daddy Lim had to work on Chu Er and he worked late. T.T
I was so glad to see the sun smiling at me after the long rain day on Chu Yi and decided that we would venture out. It is way too miserable to have to stay at home on Chu Er. Sentosa sounded like a fantastic idea to get some sun. We put the kids in the strollers and made our way to Sentosa via MRT. The kids were made to promise to stay in their stroller before we left the house. We usually do not go out with 2 strollers but decided to. Lil Isaac was very cooperative, probably bcos he saw Lil Shauna obediently stayed in her stroller. It was a fantastic choice bcos Sentosa was very crowded. The monorail was jam packed and we took the Broadway and walked to Sentosa instead. The walk was very pleasant, unlike how it was many years ago. The Broadway was totally sheltered and travelator was available almost the entire way. It was cloudy and cool, a fantastic start to a fun day.
Sentosa was full of foreigners, generally the PRCs, Indians and Bangladeshis. I mean, where else can they go? Sentosa is largely free if they stay on the beach. We had wanted to go to the Palawan Beach but realized that some flower display thingy was going on and we had to pay $5 per adult to enter Palawan Beach. There were too many foreigners for comfort and we ended up at the Port of the Lost World instead, which is another fantastic choice. The Port wasn’t crowded and the kids had a wonderful time alternating between the waterplay and the sand.
Auntie wasn’t allowed in the waterplay as she wasn’t properly attired. So I took the opportunity to rest while Auntie watched over them during the sand play. I did have some trouble handling 2 kids initially, didi was scared to do some of the slides that jiejie wanted to do. Jiejie had to give in to didi and stuck to some boring waterplay. However, we got passed that quickly and didi was enjoying slides shortly. Lil Shauna even went to the ”foam party”. Lol.
I was very worried that the sky wouldn’t hold. There were dark clouds hovering over Sentosa but God was good. There was light drizzle on and off, which kept the weather cool. We all had fun and left at 5pm, after more than 4 hours of fun.
We went to Ms Teo’s house on Chu San, in far faraway Tampines. Going back to the East brought back many fond memories and I was pointing out to Lil Shauna where mummy used to study and live. Ms Teo’s place was fantastically nice and cosy, very cottagish, unlike the modernize decoration that we would find in a typical Singaporean’s home. There were great finger food.
The kids had fun playing in one of the rooms and also at the water playground. We didn’t have full force yday but the crowd was just nice.
We left in the evening and headed for dinner at T3 before heading for home. Luckily there was no tantrum on the long car ride. But we already threatened the kids that whoever threw tantrum in the car will be left behind. Lol.
It was an eventful CNY. We are meeting the girls again this Saturday. Yeah!
Mummy Lim
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