France & Germany! Day 0

Finally, finally, finally! 

Our flight was at 2pm and we are going to fly 14 hours to Paris on a day flight. Why not a redeye flight so that we can sleep most of the flight away? Bcos it is more expensive. It is a few hundred dollars per person more expensive and that adds up to a lot. So, we are going to binge watch movies on the flight. Hohoho. 

Packing commenced last weekend bcos there are alot of things to bring for a 12 days winter holiday for 4 pax. While I always pride myself for packing and traveling light, it gets more difficult when the clothings become bigger. We brought things for ah yee and Athena too. 

Majority of the packing was done by last night. This morning, I was working for half a day and throwing last bit of random stuff into the bags. 

This round, instead of sending Mochi to a sitter’s place, we decided to have somebody come visit 2 times a day to feed him. We have tried this arrangement for shorter durations and hope that Mochi would be alight for almost 2 weeks without us. 

We have prepped and done all needed, give instructions and reminders to his sitter, Kai. I hope all will be well. 

Our place is now so much nearer to the airport. We left home at about 12.15pm and arrived in 15 mins. 

We have 2 big luggage, 1 medium and 2 big backpacks. The amount of stuff will definitely reduced once we passed them on to ah yee and throw away muddy/ dirty shoes and clothes after the catacomb. 

It was a rush at the airport. I had wanted to change $$ earlier this week but forgotten to do so in all 3 days that I was in the office. We had to feed the kids, change $$ and also buy duty free stuff for ah yee. Ah Yee said that everywhere in Europe uses credit card now, so we didn’t have to bring too much cash. 

Waiting to board.

All good! 

It is a small plane and Daddy Lim has to sit alone. Nana doesn’t want to sit with the 2 boys bcos they take up too much space. 

Our 1st meal was at 4.40pm, about 3 hours after we took off.

Zaky had like 3 buns. He totally heart the airplane meals. I felt asleep after my 2nd movie for about 2 hours and shortly after I woke up, they were serving dinner. It was about 9ish SGT time, but I felt like I just ate and was stationary the whole 5 hours. I shared dinner with Nana. 

  

Flying over somewhere in Europe. 

Finally after 13 hours!

We survived! Nana and I watched 3 movies, Zaky watched 4 and Daddy Lim did 5! 

On the way to collect our luggage. The tunnel felt like we were in an aquarium.

Ah Yee has nicely come and revived us at the airport. 

Taking the train to her place. The train ride took about an hour. 

While I felt like we kept eating on the flight to Paris, we were hungry again and ah yee bought us kebab for supper. Very nice! We needed to take a 15 mins walk to ah yee’s house from the train station. It was already past midnight when we finally settled down for bed, meaning that it was already 7am SGT. Yes, we were so very exhausted. 

Good night.

Mummy Lim