Away from Home - 20th - 21st Sep

Our first experience to bring baby adelle out to stay @ hotel. :)

20th Sep was our friends' Ryan and Lifang wedding. The dinner was held at Rasa Sentosa Resort Hotel. 1 yr and 9mths ago, we also held our wedding there too. Everything was the same - Ballroom, Event Mgr, Bridal Suite and Banquet Mgr too. :)

The nite before, hubby and i went over to Grace Assembly to do up the decoration with other church friends. We picked up Baby Adelle @ 11pm and she woke up immediately when she saw me. My aunty went over to my house to stay cos i requested her to babysit my darling in the day time as i need to reach the bride house by 6am and run around the whole day to coordinate the wedding. *Siong*

Anyway, my darling seemed to be hyper that nite. And at 1+am, she was laughing at my aunty cos i put her in the same room with my aunty. Dunno what's wrong medicine she took and keep giggling in the room and i went in to pat pat her then she doze off at 2am. *Faint* As for me, i only get to sleep 3 hrs cos i gotta woke up at 5am as the bride stay in jurong area.

When i reached the bride's house, the jie-mei have already started on the preparation of sabo items. The bride's sister prepare the yucky drinks and the other sabo items are

• sing a hokkien song from the carpark
• a bowl of whipped cream for the xiong-di to lick until they found the key (sweet pacifier)
• a bucket of ice with majong tile - using feet to pick up the tiles and form da-san-yuen.
• a contract with 5 promised items for the groom to sign and 5 neighbours to sign as witnesses
  

The groom was very nice cos he gave us a lot of angbaos for the door opening process. For every sabo item they did, he give us angbaos which include ringgit, thai baht and of cos singapore dollar. :)

At around 2+pm, hubby went back home to pick up baby adelle to go to Rasa Sentosa cos we have booked a room there! It was special rate for wedding guest which cost us $220 and we got complimentary breakfast cos i told my event mgr that i decided to take up the breakfast when i checked in and he waive off the charges for me. :)

When i checked-in to my room, i receive phone call from hubby that they have reached the hotel. So i went out to meet them. On my way to the lift lobby, i saw the hotel staff dragging a playpen. Immediately i high-jack the staff and ask if i can rent it. To my surprise, he say Yes and it's FOC. Good Good!! Initially i was thinking how baby adelle is going to sleep with us cos she's been sleeping on her own eversince we moved back after my confinement period. When i returned to the room, i saw the playpen already there with bedsheet as well. It was a Graco playpen and looks new too. Thumbs up for the service! :)

I also asked my event mgr that how come i dont have fruits in my room and they give us a BIG plate of fruits later in the evening and deliver to me. Very good service loh!! :)

During the wedding dinner, i was walking around with princess to make sure everything is fine @ ballroom. At the same time. check out if there is any cute looking boys out there.. wahhaa.. *just joking*. I brought princess to meet Joash (see pic) - prince of Simon and Tifernie. :P It was the first time that they meet face-to-face. They also exchanged hugs and kisses or rather saliva in this case. ;) Besides Joash, princess also meet prince Eason and her friend Caleb.

Despite a busy day, I also managed to take a picture with the bride - Lifang. Hereby wishing Ryan & Lifang a blissful marriage! :)

After the dinner ended, we brought princess up to change into her pjamas and very soon she doze off while we are having fun doing the "nau-dong-fang" @ the bridal suite. :) Before we leave the bridal room, she woke up in a daze and continue to sleep in the playpen when we went back in our room. She guai guai sleep through the nite inside the playpen without making a single sound. Good girl! :)

The next morning, we went for early breakfast cos princess woke up at 7+am and don't want to sleep after her bottle of milk. Jonathan, Cherling & Caleb joined us for breakfast too. There are balloon sculpting session outside the cafe lounge and i brought princess to queue up for her pink dog. Caleb gave princess a orange flower and my greedy girl happily took both balloon with her. :P

After breakfast, we brought princess to the pool. We managed to extend the checkout time to 1pm so we quickly change her into swim wear and pump up the big float. Well, she had fun in the pool!

When i put her into the float @ 0.3m high, she was able to walk with the float supporting her. Then i pulled her into the 0.7m high pool and i saw she was kicking on her own with the float. Really amazed by her baby instinct of knowing how to kick in the water and I guess she recalled how she used to kick 8-9 mths ago... ; ) We also managed to take a lot of pictures this time cos we use the float to support her thus no need to carry her in the pool...

Overall, we enjoyed our "away from home" experience and it just motivated us to bring baby adelle to go for holiday overseas... Looking fwd to do it in Nov/Dec! :) And also more swimming over the next few weeks cos we have decided not to deflat the float as it's very siong to pump it up again. :P