Heading Down South

We woke up early this morning and set off right after breakfast. We headed down to Mike’s place as our meeting point and drove off down South excitedly in 4 cars. J It’s one of the most exciting road trips overseas…

It was a long drive from Perth to South and we stopped over at the Farmer’s market to get some fresh food before continuing our journey to Dunsborough. After about three and the half hours of drive, we have finally arrived at this beautiful house.

We did not waste time at all and we unpacked all our food and started to prepare dinner. Chef Mike was busy starting up fire for the BBQ pit while the ladies prepared the food. The kids were playing outside and everyone was happy. While waiting for the food and fire to be ready, we took the opportunity to snap some pictures and keeping the kids entertained.

This is such a beautiful place and the weather was just perfect for BBQ dinner. Our Chef Mike did not stop cooking dinner for us while hub serving wine and juices. The wives were busy with the kids and the elderly happily enjoying their dinner outdoor. J This is such a picture perfect scene for a family holiday overseas!

After dinner, we continued to sit around and chatted. It was such a great time catching up with pals and also firming up some plans for the next day. The kids were not left alone but were very well-entertained by Maggie with many handicrafts prepared for them.

It was another tired day due to long drives. We will be looking forward to exploring the South tomorrow.

Our Australia Adventure Begins….

This is a long awaited holiday with the family and we are all excited about it. Our family will be heading down under this time and we are looking forward to meet Mike & family too.

My own family visited Perth in March and we simply enjoyed ourselves and recommended to our family and we are on our way!!! Wooohoo!!!

We set off to the airport to meet the rest of the family early for a quick breakfast. The morning was never the same as the kids were wide awake and energized! They were all excited to get on board the plane and here our Australia Adventure began…

We arrived on time and hubs went to collect the cars while the wives purchased the SIM cards so that we can get in touch during our trip. Sheryl had to be sent to another area for car collection as she took up a different car rental company while ours were collected at the airport.

It was an hour of drive from the airport to our home for the next 1 week and everyone was blown away on how beautiful & huge the house was. Thanks to our friend Mike’s recommendation indeed and it was perfectly convenient area too.

After freshen up ourselves and unpacked some stuff, we headed down to Mike’s place for dinner. We were greeted with a SUPER WIDE spread of food prepared by Chef Mike. When we saw the spread, we thought it was catered…. It was that good! He single handedly whipped up a fantastic restaurant buffet style dinner for all of us and everyone was impressed.

After dinner, a few of us headed out for groceries shopping so that we can prepare some simple breakfast tomorrow before setting off to South. The supermarket near their place was pretty cool as it was similar to our Seng Siong back home.

Everyone was tired after a long day and we are all excited about our drive down South tomorrow. Woohoo!!!

Primary One Orientation

This is SOOOOOOOOOO UNREAL to me!!! P1 orientation??? OMG!!!! This is really happening!!! Yes, I am still in a denial stage as I can’t seem to accept that our lady Faith will be heading to P1 in January 2017! *Shock*

We were guided to the school hall for the orientation while she had to line up according to her class. She was all ready and can’t wait to check out her classmates, form teacher and classroom. We, as parents were just as excited as her but we had to keep our cool.

It started off with school Principle speech and introductions and then with a talk on how to grow and learn with our daughter. It was very much fruitful talk to us and we somehow learnt quite a bit from it. I truly agreed that many of us only show concerns on their academics instead of their wellbeing at school. After the talk, I trust that we should have both balanced up as that will give our child unnecessary added stress.

After the talk, we were asked to check out the school canteen and that was pretty much chaotic… coz’ so many kids and it was overpowered by parents. Hahahaahahah…. Many parents went forward to tell our child how to buy food, what to get and where to sit thereafter which somehow made the whole situation even messier than it already had… kekekeekekekek… for us, we stood aside to check her out on how she would behave and if she can handle it by herself. Mmmh… through our observation, she is NOT ready…. Hahahaahah

While the kids went for some program organized by the school, the parents had the chance to meet their form teachers. We were led to a classroom and the short session / introduction by the form teacher was pretty good. With this session, it somehow boosts our confident that our child will is well-taken care off in school and there is nothing to worry about.

 Thumps UP!

Emma’s 2nd Birthday Party @ Marche 313

Everyone loves Marche and that includes my family. This family friend restaurant has somehow become one of our favourite venues for our kids’ birthday party. The food and the service were perfect.

You must be wondering that isn’t Emma’s birthday in December? Hahahaha…. Yes, it is but we will be heading to Australia for a family holiday end of this month and will not have time to organize the party when we returned. *winks*

Our guest arrived on time and we started the simple party lunch at a reserved area which was near the kids’ playground. Our guests were given the card for to buy their food freely and some even ordered the food to share with everyone.

While the kids were having a great time at the play area, the adults had some peace to take lunch and had a little catch up time with friends. Emma, the birthday girl was pretty shy but managed to cheer up the moment she saw her birthday cake served in front of her.

Everyone gathered at the little table to sing her a birthday song and she was all smiles with the cake toppers. This time, we ordered the cake from Marche and brought our own cake toppers for simple decoration. The pastry chef was so kind to have our cake decorated so beautifully that some of the patrons from Marche asked if they can purchase the cake… hahaahahahahaha

The party was simply successful organized with the assistance of the staff at Marche. We truly thank everyone for coming for this simple celebration for our little one and we thank you for your wonderful and lovely gifts. J God bless!

Zumba Time

Usually we have about 5 of us joining the Zumba class organized by our building management but today, it was only 3 of us.

The weather is not too good for outdoor exercise and we are moved to the indoor ‘abandon office space’ (hahaahahaha) for our workout instead. I do enjoy the indoor workout as we have air-conditioned switched on and more privacy but of course… nothing beats natural wind!

Zumba lesson today was pretty much alright except for some songs which we did not really enjoy. J

 

Happy 23rd Month

OMG!!! My baby girl Emma will be turning TWO next month and I am totally not ready for that! I have been busy preparing door gifts for her advance birthday party in 2 weeks’ time and I can’t believe that the party is always drawing near…

Happy 23^rd Month Baby Girl…

Rise & Swim

Time passes extremely fast when you are on holiday…Sighz…

After our breakfast, our kiddos requested for one last dip before heading back to Singapore. Their wish was granted as we had time and hotel was generous to give us late check out. The kids were enjoying themselves in the pool though given only about 2 hours of swim time.

Little Emma was extremely happy to be back in the pool once again with her sister and this time, she started to swim on her own with the floats. I was really happy to see them enjoying themselves and I am pretty sure we will be back to this beautiful resort soon.

After our quick lunch, we check out and headed back home…