How much can you pack into one day?

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This was a truly long day. In fact i can't believe how long it was, until i started putting photos into it. How we all did this day i do not know. Here it goes.

Sunday...


When i was staying in Singapore for Months in 2008 and 2007, we would go to Hans for breakfast every Sunday morning. Well most Sundays. My mom said that it was an awful waste of money because 'Hans cheat the people money' all the time. Simply put, it wasn't value for money. But it became a bit of a tradition and quite ironic that we went there now. And we enjoyed this irony. It is also comfortable and in the middle of town which made it handy to go anywhere else after that. So here's the whole family together...


Look at that!!! Aurelia and Ghin.


Mummy and Alex... i think this is the first time he makes an appearance in the blog. He is a porker.




Jacq takes five as she has some chok.




This is her breastfeeding Alex. In Singapore it is rude to do this without covering yourself with a tokpo. So here she is with one. Can you see Alex's toes sticking out from under the tokpo?


Oisin listlessly entertains the younger ones playing Slamwich.




Ghin was very taken with this card game about food.


Alex falls asleep after eating.


There he is!!!


We then pack off to Jacob Ballas garden where we stay for half an hour because of the rains.


Here is how to climb a tree... something which strangely enough no one was doing. Despite the exceedingly climbable nature of this tree.




Ghin refused to let this Bob the Builder scoop thing go. Until he got covered in sand which sticks to you in Singapore in a really annoying way and then began to cry.


We then went to this Irish pub to meet Leon and his family. Outside it was a stuffed model of Ah Meng.








Ghin actually has a double chin by this stage of the trip.




Then we went to see Gary Kasparov, the chess champion. Ghin fell asleep, almost fell asleep then.


Here are the 22 hopefuls who played with Gary.







Then we went to the Night Safari.




So it was a long day... pretty impressive innit?


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