The doctor did give the green light, and we caught the next flight back. We were missing the kids and home already! :)
So the reason we went to Singapore was, of course, for Hubby's cornea transplant, but we managed to squeeze in some shopping, lovely dinners, and also meetings with cousins.
Big thanks to Sis no.4 and Richard for letting us crash at their place!
They brought us for yummy Japanese food...
at Robinson Quay was it? It's a very nice, chic area with plenty of al fresco dining options.
Big Sis and CM also 'chia'ed dinner, at Crystal Jade, a Chinese restaurant at the airport! Yup, I find it unusual, but it's common practice there to go to the airport for dining and shopping, since they have such a great variety of shops with reasonable prices. Little brother Polycarp and Daphne were there, as well as my cousins Sylvester and Nana.
We also met Baby Dominic and Baby Garnet for the first time. The mummies say that both of them are terrors at home, but all throughout the dinner they slept like angels!! :)
Benedict koko calls him Domimic!
Baby Garnet is very pretty...
Cousin Sylvester also brought cousin Alex to the house. We haven't seen Alex since he was 4! (he's sitting in the middle with a checkered shirt... as you can see, he's grown since! hahaha..) He was on his way back to Vancouver after a long holiday to Malaysia.
Well, Hubby and I had plenty of time to kill, since he could not fly until his eye had healed properly. So we also went shopping at Orchard Road, and I managed to squeeze in a trip to my favourite (actually the only one I know) bakery supplies store at Kallang Bahru as well. Oh yes, I bought plenty of gorgeous books from Kinokuniya. If only we had a big Kinokuniya here.... sigh...
We visited the Marina Bay Sands casino, and all I can say is that jackpot machines are money eating machines, full stop! Stay away... :)
Clarke Quay was also nice. We had dinner at Freemantle Fishmarket and then watched a cute old guy showing off his dance moves on the bridge (he was busking... with a license of course... we're talking about Singapore here...)!
So anyway, now it's back to work and school runs!
Sidekick is going home for the first 2 weeks of May. I'm so not looking forward to that, but she deserves to go home and see her kids. I was only away for a week, I can't imagine being away for 2 years!
It's not going to be fun, but I have some backup plans in place, namely; laundromat and take-away!! :) May the force be with me...
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