CNY weekend Day 3 (First day of CNY)
We decided that it was time for the boys' first trip to the Mandai Zoo! What better time we thought? It was a long weekend, it was the first day of the Chinese New Year so certainly all our fellow Chinese Singaporean citizens would be busy visiting and we had the whole of the next day to recover from whatever madness transpires at the zoo.
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| The entrace of the zoo as we were leaving!!!! |
And what madness it was. It could have possibly been the busiest day at the zoo EVER! We were amongst, what must have been, contingents of Bangladeshi workers enjoying their long weekend and bus loads of tourists and of course about 99.36% of the expat community here in Singapore who thought it too was the best day ever to descent upon Mandai zoo.
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| Ipin and the billy goats. They tried to bite off my babies little toes. Time to buy them shoes I'll say! |
For our first trip, it went surprisingly well. We didn't see much cos the boys were a tad cranky from fighting the zzzzs. They were obviously thrilled. But we have the membership passes so this will be the first of many many trips to the zoo!
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| We thought of Auntie Imp, whose holidaying in Shanghai, when we were at the Orangutan enclosure! |
We did spend loads of time at the Orang Utan enclosure, which I love!!! So the boys got to appreciate why the gift we had gifted Auntie Imp was a very important one!
CNY weekend Day 4
Day 4 was a 'take-it-easy' day before life resumed to its normal frantic pace. I wanted a home-cooked meal so I planned for a trip to the nearby supermarket. Hubby was craving prata so we thought we'd make a stop at a nearby prata joint for breakfast, before shopping for groceries. Yes, with the twins. We do EVERYTHING with the twins!
It was such a delightful surprise when the doorbell rang early in the morning and I found my brother and my lil nephew waiting for us to welcome them in. They had gone on a very very early morning walk at Bishan Park and stopped by to say hello. They decided to join us for prata and it became certainly more fun than if we had just gone, the 4 of us!
Shopping at NTUC went well and I managed to get everything I needed for an Ikan Bakar lunch. I also made baked honey chicken wings for the helper who is allergic to fish and we had scrumptious stir-fried bittergourd to round off the meal!
Oh though, I forgot banana leaves, which would have done wonders to the dish. My folks have a banana tree right in front of their place, so it didn't occur to me that I'd need to buy some, seeing that I'm now a heartlander with no space to plant my own fruit trees!
I even had enough energy to round up a batch of Apple Pie Muffins. Which didn't turn out as I expected, but that's for another blog post.
The weekend ended with me sharing to hubby, ' Our weekends have never been more tiring, but they've never felt more fulfilling and rewarding either'.
The joys of parenthood. =)
Day 4 was a 'take-it-easy' day before life resumed to its normal frantic pace. I wanted a home-cooked meal so I planned for a trip to the nearby supermarket. Hubby was craving prata so we thought we'd make a stop at a nearby prata joint for breakfast, before shopping for groceries. Yes, with the twins. We do EVERYTHING with the twins!
It was such a delightful surprise when the doorbell rang early in the morning and I found my brother and my lil nephew waiting for us to welcome them in. They had gone on a very very early morning walk at Bishan Park and stopped by to say hello. They decided to join us for prata and it became certainly more fun than if we had just gone, the 4 of us!
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| It was actually very very good! |
Oh though, I forgot banana leaves, which would have done wonders to the dish. My folks have a banana tree right in front of their place, so it didn't occur to me that I'd need to buy some, seeing that I'm now a heartlander with no space to plant my own fruit trees!
I even had enough energy to round up a batch of Apple Pie Muffins. Which didn't turn out as I expected, but that's for another blog post.
The weekend ended with me sharing to hubby, ' Our weekends have never been more tiring, but they've never felt more fulfilling and rewarding either'.
The joys of parenthood. =)