Great buy

I bought this play mat for my boys from IKEA yesterday. It's a great hit!





Oliver can be content and spend ages playing his cars - if he can avoid the disturbance from Luca!

Excursion to Little India

The boys enjoyed another public transport excursion today with Merryn and Dennis. This time we got the condo shuttle to the MRT and took trains into Little India. We have been there once but haven't spent much time there. Since Merryn and Dennis knew the area quite well (from their old days) it was an easy shopping day for me!

We went into Mustafas which is a 24 hour shopping complex. We had some things on our shopping list so zoomed around the department store.





We had authentic Indian cuisine for lunch - some masala dosai and lassis, they were so yuuummmy!



We continued our shopping to IKEA after this. Quite a different shopping environment - India to Sweden in Singapore!!

We had an early dinner at IKEA. The boys were exhausted from a whole day shopping and went straight to bed which meant some quiet adult time watching Tour de France and some treats from IKEA :)

Smell of New Zealand

When I was shopping in Japan I found this:



Air freshener which gives you the odour of New Zealand, especially the smell from the South Island.

After a little bit of a tidy up today I used it and results....? Maybee? Japanese people have a very good imagination!

Great shopping day out

This trip to Singapore was extra special as a very good friend of mine Isabel, came along with us. She had her own agenda which was to get "Lasik" - laser eye surgery done on her eyes. As I have a bad eye condition it was very interesting to check out the whole process with her.

It took her 3-4 hours to get her eyes checked in the clinic to determine if she is qualified for the surgery. They gave her the green light so she was asked to come back the next day for 15mins of laser surgery, yes only 15min!

After her surgery to make sure she could get back to the apartment we were staying at, I went to pick her up in town. Straight away she could see so well without her contact lenses and glasses, how amazing!

After a nights rest we were back in town to get her eyes checked after the surgery. Everything was good with her eyes so we went for a big shopping excursion! To start off we had a very yummy breakfast in Paragon Shopping Center.

Isabel with her new eyes:



Eggs benedict:



She introduced me to these finger licking good caramel macaroons - I am so going back to get some more once we live in Singapore!



Oliver was with Matthew to spend "daddy and son time" at the zoo so only Luca came along with us. He really loved getting so much attention from us!





We sort of went WILD in the shopping center. There wasn't any room for Luca to sit in his buggy in the end...



Shopping is always extra special and becomes dangerous when you are with your girlfriend!

IKEA on Sunday

Yes... I should have listened to my husband's advice - not to go to IKEA on Sundays. But I had to make sure we can fit that in while we were in Singapore. So off we went on a catastrophic shopping excursion.

There were of course so so many people there and having to push a buggy and keep track of a toddler who wants to jump on everything was a bad idea.

I only wanted to see their new Christmas range so it didn't take too long to go around in the end but when it came to grab a table to have some lunch and coffee - what a disaster :( (Lucky there were so many people around they couldn't really hear our screaming children... and me)



These lights looked very warm and Christmasy - I bought one each for the boys rooms.



A good thing was I didn't buy anything extra (as I usually do) so the shopping bill wasn't too bad!