Chinese New Year 2014

Reunion dinner this year was different. Nai Nai decided we should eat out instead. So we reserved a table at Golden Sand Restaurant at Changi Beach Club, as recommended by one of Nai Nai's friend. 

Yee Sok Steve got back from Dubai in time for dinner and also to spend the next 9 days with us. Food was not too bad. Mei Mei Andrea was so tired she slept through the first half of dinner. When she woke up, dinner was almost over but she still got to eat some of her favourite food. 

After dinner, we decided to check out the beach area outside the restaurant. Unfortunately the boardwalk was closed to the public so we just hung around the pool area. We took some nice family pictures and had lots of fun with the monster face shots. 

The next day, we woke up and Daddy and Mummy showered us with nice wishes and also an ang pow each.

We then had steamboat breakfast and changed up for our visitation. We went to Bishan for some more breakfast with Ma Ma and Gong Gong, then headed to AMK to a grand aunty's house for more food. I guess it is all about eating during Chinese New Year. At about 5.30pm, we headed to 3rd grand aunty's house to meet up with more aunties, uncles and cousins. 

Adventure Cove Waterpark

Daddy and Mummy took the day off and planned a trip to Adventure Cove with me. We were suppose to go last Monday but we all fell sick and so had to postpone it.

Daddy and Mummy went to check out some child cares for Mei Mei Andrea in the morning before coming to get me from school at 12pm. The weather was perfect for this outing, quite cloudy and not too hot. And since it was not a school holiday, it was not very crowded at all, just the usual tourist crowd.

Our first ride was the Riptide Rocket. The queue wasn't very long compared to some we have seen at other theme parks, just about 30 mins wait. I took the ride with Daddy as I was below 122 cm tall. Mummy wasn't very thrilled to take it alone but she survived it. She doesn't like height and speed. It is actually an intense roller coaster on water. I loved it even though we flipped as we ended the ride. We also tried the Dueling Racer. This one wasn't as scary but fun nonetheless. Then there was the wave pool at the Bluwater Bay, the Big Bucket Treehouse, Adventure River and Rainbow Reef where we got to snorkel among the marine fishes. Of all the attractions, I like the wave pool the most and we spent almost an hour there.

Tennis

We met Joshua and Uncle Gary at the tennis court at CSC this morning. Since coach Ray is still not back from his holiday, Uncle Gary thought he will conduct some clinic for Joshua and myself in case we forget what we have learned so far.

It was a very hot day but we had a lot of fun at the court. Uncle Gary thinks I can play well if I have more training so I should not give up. I hope I can cope with both swimming and tennis.

The Junior Gynmastic

Mummy wanted to enroll Mei Mei Andrea into this gymnastic class and thought she should have a trial class to check it out. Since I was there, I got to try the class too. The gym is a lot bigger than the other gyms I have been too. Actually this is an actual gym located inside Hwa Chong Junior College. There are many kids who attend the gym classes there over the weekend. Mummy got to know about it through Aunty Linna who brings Amelia, Sarah and Hannah there for the gym classes.

I had a lot of fun as my class of 3 other boys got to do some simple gymnastic moves. We also tried out the parallel bars but we were of course assisted as we tried to pull ourselves up on the bar. I think I want to come back for more lessons.

Mei Mei Andrea wasn't too pleased to be left without Mummy and Daddy. She cried the whole 1.5 hours she was there and she had to stick to Aunty Jenny whose 22 month old granddaughter will join the class soon. I am not sure if Mei Mei Andrea will want to come back again but Mummy and Daddy think she should and she will eventually enjoy it. Let's see.

Birthday Party @ Polliwogs... Again..

My classmate Joshua happens to celebrate his birthday in December too so it was decided that we will celebrate our birthday party together at Polliwogs and invite all our classmates to the party. Although I celebrated my 3rd birthday at the same place, I thought it was still a pretty cool place to have a party. As some of our classmates were away on holiday during this year end period, not all were present at the party. We still had a pretty good turnout and had lots of fun.

We played some games and since the kids are older this time, the games were more organized compared to 2 years ago. Even Daddy and Joshua's daddy had to participate in the games and wear superhero T-shirts stuffed with plastic balls. We even had our own cakes! Joshua likes racing cars so his cake had a race car on it. I am still crazy over my animals and so I asked for one with animals on it. Obviously there were a lot of cakes left over and we had to bring it home to try finish it. Joshua's Mummy asked for 8 boxes of pizzas for the parents and we also ended up with like 5 boxes leftover.

I had to leave early from Polliwogs and go for my piano grading at Yamaha. I didn't do very well but it was good enough. It happened to be my last class at Yamaha as I will be having teacher Serene come to the house to teach me one on one. I am looking forward to that.

Mummy and Daddy decided to give us another treat and brought us to Katong GV to watch Walking with the Dinosaurs. Unfortunately Mummy overlooked the booking and got the non 3D version instead. It would have been a lot nicer with the 3D effects but it was still good nonetheless. So good even Mei Mei Andrea sat through the whole show.

Legoland

Finally we are on our way to Legoland. After several failed attempts to agree on a date, Mummy and Godma decided we will head to Legoland today.

Daddy decided to drive up while Uncle Yew Leong wanted to take it easy and decided to engage a driver to bring them to the hotel we are staying. We arrived at Hotel Granada at about the same time at 10am this morning. From there it was about a 10 mins drive to Legoland.

Thank goodness there was no crowd when we got there. In fact we were told the school holiday starts tomorrow so we are spared from the long queues at the rides. Indeed it was almost no queues at most of the rides. We went on to the roller coasters, both the mild and also the scarier one. We enjoyed both of them.

Unfortunately it started raining in the afternoon and we had to spend about an hour waiting for the rain to go away. By which time we decided we should head to the Waterpark as it closes at 6pm sharp. We had more fun at the Waterpark although the most exciting rides were not available to us as we were less then 120cm tall. Nonetheless it was fun floating around the park with Lego blocks floating around us. We also spend quite a bit of time at the small water slides. Even Andrea had fun with the slides.

We were literally chased out of the park at 6pm sharp. We headed to Old Town for dinner and although it was not as good as expected, we were hungry so anything was good enough. We then headed back to the hotel and after a hot shower, we fell asleep quite quickly before 8pm.

Anyoung Haseyo

Daddy made it for an incentive trip to Seoul Korea and he decided that he will extend the trip and have the family go along with him. He was suppose to be there for 3 days with his colleagues so he extended for another week and invited Godpa and Janessa to join us. We got there on the 4th Oct and returned on the 12th.

Before Godpa and Janessa joined us, we made a trip to Everland because everyone was talking about it and that we should go, especially the kids. It was quite a long way from Seoul and we had a little unpleasant encounter with the taxi driver on the way there but we soon put that behind us and enjoyed ourselves at Everland. It is a very big park and they even have a section with many animals. I enjoyed feeding the birds which landed on my hand. It was something different and really exciting. In the evening, we started queuing for the rides as it was not as crowded then. We had a lot of fun and by the time we got back to the hotel, we were all so tired and Mummy and Daddy had to carry us both to the room.

When Janessa arrived a couple of days later, we went to a few more parks and playgrounds like Lotte World and Children's Grand Park. We also had fun on the cruise along the Han River. We also had great meals at the Korean BBQ restaurants. I guess the pictures will tell it all.

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