What we did last december

An evening at Esplanade

Hubby and I are music lovers. We're particularly found of live performances. We used to go Crazy Elephant at Clarke Quay for their blues rock music. We also went Wala wala and Balaclava a few times. Of course, being 民歌餐厅 performers ourselves, we patronised 木船 (when it was still in Chinatown) many times. Well, we used to perform there too. And before 一炮儿红 closed shop, I visited the place quite a few times. We 客串 a few times too.

We really miss those days where we could watch performances late into the night, then go for supper afterwards. We miss that kind of magic in the air which only live music can bring. Alas, young kids in the family certainly doesn't support this lifestyle.

On that particular evening however, we got back a little bit of that magic. We were lucky the band playing that day was pretty good! Of course the kids weren't interested but we had them laughing and squealing by placing them on our laps and dancing with them to the music. Hey, music should be enjoyed thus! They were enthusiastically clapping to more than 3 songs!

But first, dinner and a walk by the riverside.

Very unsightly white balls.

Don't worry, I read that all these plastic balls were recycled after the New Year celebration.

We decided to stay out a bit later that night. During holidays, we are willing to push back their bedtime to 9.30pm. School nights are strictly 8.30pm. That night, they slept at 10+pm I think.

The keyboardist was awesome.

 Drummer was awesome too.

The bassist was quite good but the lead guitarist was bleah.

The band is called Laksa something. With the exception of the lead guitarist, they were all very groovy and tight. Pretty impressive! We performed such free performances at the Esplanade before and so I was surprised this free performance was of such fine quality. (Ya lah, we weren't exactly that good. Hehe)

Hannah's 4th birthday party

Do I really still need to write captions for birthday parties?

Meetup with SNGS friends

Made a new friend that day too. :)

We had lunch at Marche. That was a good choice because the kids had such a great time at the Marche playhouse that we could chat from 11+am to almost 4pm. At 2+pm, they napped for a while, Mandy in the stroller and Barry on the bench with cushion.

Even hubby enjoyed chatting with us girls. Ha.

We should do this more often. :)

Woodlands waterfront

It was my mum's first time there. There was a huge group of people. They all look like Myanmar (I've checked! This is the correct name for people of Myanmar) or people from that region. It looks like their family day or something.

Later, we saw them leave in the busloads! It was the 18th, anyone know if it's any day of significance for them?

The skywald was swarmed with kids, some of them very big. So after playing at the playground, we took a walk at the jetty first. My mum, as usual, was a great entertainer. She fed them pears and jested around with them.

This Mandy, so corny.

 Finally got to climb. We started a huge traffic jam behind us. Oops.

 

Or course, we had many other outings last holidays which I've already blogged about. We thoroughly enjoyed spending the whole month together as a family.

Aren't holidays great?