August 2011 - Cheap SQ Promotion Trip

20 August 2011 - 28 August 2011
Bay is 25 months old

We managed to catch the super sweet SQ promotion. Return air tickets to Shanghai was only S$488 per person, taxes inclusive! The only thing though was that Bay is more than 2 years old now and I had to pay for his ticket which is almost S$488. This was the first trip which he was officially entitled to his own seat.


Day 1 (Travelling day)
As usual, we took the mid afternoon flight and reached Shanghai in the evening. Although Bay's got his own seat but it was difficult to keep him seated in it, what he wanted to do was either to stand on it or to sit on my lap. In the end, the crew got to give me the infant seat belt and he sat with me during take off. The good thing was he fell asleep at the moment when the airplane wheels left the ground.

Before take-off... windows of the plane goes up and down, up and down, up and down

K.O.

Hoot! Meal time... My oriental chicken rice set and they gave me one with the breast meat (I hate it!)... but I still finish everything. "Give face" to the chilly sause and I was really hungry!

Kids' meal - Chicken spaghetti, he finished half of it

After meal entertainment... It's like watching with the sound turned off. So cute!

      

Half way through the flight, Bay took his trolley bag, dragged it to the front of the plane and said to me, "Mama, let's go. I dont want aeroplane already!" Haiz... Ok, nap - checked, meals - checked, ice-cream checked, in-flight entertainment - checked... what else can we do? It's going to be a long remaining 3 hours...

When we reached our destination, I'm totally beaten by an hyper-active toddler on board who only wants to climb up and down, left and right the seat instead of sitting on it. So tired that I couldnt take anymore photos.


Day 2 (玉佛寺)
We will visit this temple quite often per mum's request as it was where she went for the 水陆法会. We had vegetarian noodle lunch at the temple cafeteria. The taste is pretty ok but it is oily like the usual normal chinese food. For 10 RMB per bowl, I am not complaining.

Bonding with papa

young devotee

feeding the kois

On our way home

Day 3 - Day 7
I should amend this post title to "August 2011 - 病猫之旅" but it was so awful and unauspicious!

All of us fell sick with different degree of seriousness. Mark was on MC for a day for gastric pain (He hardly take MC one!). Kiiron and me were having tummy upset. Mum's case of stomach flu was the worst. She puked and had stomach cramps which were so bad that she could not even get up the bed. So we stayed home for almost the whole week. Other than that, our days were quite uneventful... lazing at home or walking around supermarkets & Decathlon. I even bought a new Dino Baby stroller for S$40. Hahaha! cheap cheap!

Nevertheless, I kept to my "A Pot of Curry" date... a few days later. Better late than never right! My mum did the cooking, not me! hahaha!

Our pot of curry from Shanghai

Bay must be so bored at home that he helped to clean the house by mimicking the cleaning 阿姨. It was more like a game.

Day 8 (Presidential Election Day)
Mark had to go do his duty as a Singapore today. The plan is to go fo lunch with his colleagues first before heading to the embassy. Mum was still too sick to go out with us.

Lunch was arranged at 吉士酒家, a small restaurant serving really good chinese food. Apparently, we had to make reservations 2 weeks before in order to get a table.

葱烤鸦片鱼头 (Baked Cod Fish Head with Spring Onion)... a must order dish.
Have to preorder when making reservation

Other must order dishes...
spicy chicken & prawn, 蟹粉粉皮, 红烧肉
(Bay took the right most pic!)

Voted!

Day 9 (Home Sweet Home)

Time to pack... 姨妈's loot from taobao

We took the evening flight back and will reach Singapore almost midnight. Not very good timing for a toddler.

A little accident happened just before take-off! Our plane has just began to taxi and I was trying to get Bay who again was standing on the seat, to settle down. Then there was a sudden jerk and Bay fall backwards and hit the back of his head on the turn-knob of the tray table! I felt a soft lump on his head and immediately took a clean wet tissue to compress it. He stopped crying rather quickly and the plane took-off. To my horror, I found that he was actually bleeding. A small area of the skin was scraped off. Luckily it stopped bleeding after a while and he didnt show any signs concussion. I have to insisted that he must be seated in future!