Day out at Vivo City

We spent a day out at Vivo City where Usuh and I spent most of the time sitting in the shade while Zahra had a blast in the small play area with spurting fountains and some playground things! She went on the slide and burnt her bum cos it was too hot! Then she went on the animal rides which was fun she said although she got tired of jumping up and down on the seat to move the toy. She climbed vigariously on the plastic figures set around the play area for climbing. Then when she got tired and thirsty we had a quick and not so yummy lunch at Secret Recipe. After lunch Zahra continued with her day of play at the small paint shop where she filled in 3 pictures with the paints. Getting to Vivo City cost us $7 from Hyatt and overall I think its a good day out with the kids and if you get bored you could always hop on the sky train and go around Sentosa, but we'll leave that for another day.

Zahra on the slide which was hot !!

Zahra on the dog


Zahra on top of a plastic climbing figurine

Filling in the colours at the paint shop

Showing off her finished product at the deck overlooking Sentosa

Singapore Hiatus

Hello from Singapore! We are here for the the next week to accompany usus to undergo Radiation Therapy at the National Cancer Center here. She is ok just a bit nervous I guess. The therapy starts this wednesday and the doctors have explained that there are no real side effects. In the meantime we are just taking it easy hanging out sometimes at the shops not really shopping just window shopping! Despite it being the Singapore Sales now. Zahra ofcourse has bought her stash of toys and by the afternoon we settle down to our comfy room at the Hyatt to watch her CDs on Usuh's mobile CD player. Unfortunately the pool at the Hyatt is undergoing renovations so we can only see from our room the rubble below! Anyway the photos are of our abode for the next 10 days. Zahra and her large TV!!

Will do another post later!

Happy Mother's Day!!

Well it was a quiet mother's day really as I had one order of cucpcakes to do, for lunch we just had takeaways and in the evening amidst the mini hurricane in Gadong, we had to run around the mall looking for Fatin's school shoes! I swear she really eats through her shoes!

Still my kids were sweet enough to make chocolate chip cookies for me. I think Amin and Zahra raided my baking cupboard and found my stash of M n Ms.

In the evening Amin my aspiring cook did steak, mash potatoes and courgettes for us. He made this special pepper sauce which was not to my liking but as always he had his own style! My own mum is still overseas or else no doubt we would have had lunch or high tea at their house. Happy Mothers day to all you mums.