Day 1 - Singapore to Geneva

The plane ride to Frankfurt wasn't as painful as what I imagined it would be. We were given the row for the bassinet, which basically meant that we had plenty of leg space. The only down was that only the divider of the middle 2 seats can be lifted up, so Lil Isaac and I sat in the middle. Lil Shauna was to my left and Daddy Lim was on Lil Isaac's right. Lil Isaac asked to be tucked to sleep even before the plane took off. He curled into a ball and voila. We had peace for a long while. Lil Shauna didn't survived very long too. The adults tried to sleep as much as possible given the long day ahead. Lil Shauna didn't sleep that comfortably as she had to sleep sitting up while didi had the best position, using my lap as his personal pillow for most part of the flight.

The kids woke up 3 hours before landing and the inflight entertainment did the trick. Breakfast was served not too long later and the kids were kept happy. Soon, it was touched down time and I am glad to say that we survived the flight very well. 

There was tight security checks at Frankfurt airport plus long queue thus resulting in a long wait. The kids were impatient and I was super worried about missing the connecting flight thus wasn't keen to entertain the kids. Daddy Lim on the other hand was dying for his nicrotine fix but didnt get the chance. When we were at custom clearance, it was already nearing gate opening time. We started running for gate after custom and had actually practice that at home as a joke. I was surprised that we actually used it at the airport. Lol.

We were the last few to board the train. The plane took off very shortly after we were seated. It was a full flight (of adults) and we were seated separately with Daddy Lim and Lil Shauna. The 45mins flight proved to be a little challenging for Lil Isaac given that there was no inflight entertainment and only snack was served. Lil Isaac was noisy in the all adult flight and he kept kicking (unintentionally) the seat in front and the passenger gave us naughty looks at the end of the flight. 

The sight outside of the window was fabulous. We flew above clouds that looked like cotton candy. Hehe.

There was no immigration in Switzerland. Last year when I was in Switzerland, I basically tagged behind blindly and was thus so glad when I managed to find the shuttle bus to the hotel. The hotel room was  ready upon check-in. We had to smuggle the kids to the room bcos we only registered as 2 adults. The room was comfortable and we had a king size bed. We had to constantly tell the kids to be quiet and suddenly realised how loud our kids are. I wonder what would happen if we were found out.

After we settled down, we took the shuttle bus back to airport to have an expensive but very simple lunch. 

Everything is expensive in Geneva. Lil Isaac fell asleep during lunch. 

We headed to the supermarket for grocery shopping and bought food for the following day's bfast. There are super nice bakery everywhere in Geneva, even in the supermarkets. By the way, did you see the bottles in my bag? Geneva is very environmental friendly.

We headed back to hotel thereafter and skipped old town cos I was not sure which way to go and was worried that we couldnt get back in time for my meeting.

Back in hotel, we could only find paid TV. We tried to entertain the kids with Ipad but that didn't work for long and Daddy Lim had to bring them swimming. Given the long day and the disrupted sleep on the plane, the kids went to bed at 7 pm. I was back to the room at 9.30pm and they were all asleep by then. It had been a long day.

The kids were jetlag and they woke up at 4am and were running around in the room. I managed to tuck Lil Isaac back to bed but Lil Shauna didn't go back to bed since 4 am.  I wonder how jetlag we will be when we are back in Singapore 14 days later.

Mummy Lim