our dear little prince darren: Staycation at Intercontinental over the Xmas

I think it was a blessing in disguise. When mommy got to know abt the “stay one nite and another nite free” promotion at Intercontinental Hotel and called to book, actually there was no vacancy over the xmas weekend and she booked the 18-20 Dec instead, but how unlucky or lucky, I was having a fever tat weekend and daddy called to postpone and managed to book the xmas weekend at the same rate!

So on the xmas day, daddy and mommy made sure I had a good nap in the afternoon first before we set off to the hotel. Even though we were still in Singapore and the hotel is a 20 min drive away from our home, mommy still packed extra clothes / diaper for me. in the end, half of the luggage bag was filled up by my stuff. Daddy even brot my own playpen along in case I cannot sleep.

met up with wai gong at the lobby

our room

Then we met up with wai po and wai gong at the lobby. After check in and went up to the room, I was oredi very excited and was running around in the room. I was especially fascinated with the bathtub as we dun have it at home. And also the weighing machine in the bathroom as it shows in numbers and numbers now are my favourite now.

playing with bathtub and the weighing machine at the washroom.. mabye cos they are new to me

waipo put me in the basin.

then the laundry basket!

After waited for one hour plus for the porter to deliver our bags (in the end, the porter made a mistake and deliver our stuff to another room), we went for dinner at the Chinese restaurant Man Fu Yuen in the hotel. Although I oredi had my dinner, I still can eat some more noodles. I especially enjoyed the dessert. Mommy ordered the aballing as we forgot to celebrate “dong zhi” and a bowl of mango pomelo. Initially I dun dare to touch the a boling, then mommy took a bit to let me taste. After I got used to the taste, I took it and bit myself. It was really hilarious to look at me tackling the a boling.

at the lobby before going up for dinner

mommy feeding me the noodle

eating a boling

Think I was so excited tat I only slept at around 11pm tat nite.

can i fly like harry potter with this umbrella?

Day 2
After a tiring nite, the three of us only woke up at 8plus… daddy decided to take the breakfast downstairs even though it was not included in the hotel stay package. Maybe I was too distracted by the new environment, I didn’t want my usual porridge nor the bread or hotcake. After much attempt, mommy remembered I like to munch on cereal when I was at the childcare. So she asked daddy to get a bowl of cereal and indeed, I quietly sat on my highchair and munched the cereal on my own so tat daddy and mommy had some quiet moments to finish their own breakfast.

munching on cereal

It was swimming time after the breakfast. Although the hotel is in the city centre, it was quite a quiet and relaxing place with a few pple. Daddy brot me to the Jacuzzi pool as it’s covered and the water doesn’t feel as cold as the baby pool. Initially I was scared by the water. But after a while, I was happily playing with it and shrieking in excitement when daddy made me jump in the water.

enjoying my swim at the jacuzzi

Lunch was dim sum at wah lok. Daddy ordered a bowl of fish porridge for me to eat, but I was munching the fried ikan bilis and peanuts.. and refused to eat. Even after having a bottle of milk, I still cannot be pacified and wanted to come down from the high chair… guessing it was my nap time, daddy asked the waitress to help us tao bao and we went back to the hotel room.
Who knows, once back, I was ok oredi and playing with my toys and asked daddy mommy to read books to me and slowly I finished the bowl of porridge. Hahahaha..

Dinner was with mommy’s frenz at pasta de waraku… oo.. I ate some of the cream based pasta, played with the balloon auntie veron gave me. then after tat daddy and mommy brot me to TCC for dessert. I thoroughly enjoyed myself. Even when they brot me back to the room to shower and got ready for bed, I was still actively playing and asking them to read books to me. then daddy and mommy got very tired cos they havent’ showered and wanted to get some rest. So daddy shut down all the lights and hoped I can go zzz soon. But who knows, I still can play in the dark and only knocked off after much coaxing or as daddy put it “ the battery finally run flat” at 12am! Tat’s a record timing for me!

ready to go dinner with mommy

playing with the balloon auntie veron gave me

Then next morning, we had a quick breakfast since we all slept until 9am plus. Then mommy went to the food court and bot me a bowl of chicken macaroni for lunch but I barely touched. And it’s almost time to check out. Yeah.. home sweet home.. here we come!