For my birthday, we went away for a staycation on the island of Sentosa. Although it’s supposed to be a short relaxing holiday, it’s never that relaxing with a baby. The super charged monster was so excited with everything that he missed his naps and managed to survive with just power naps in between travel to another site. But on another hand, he slept through the night and effortlessly whenever we reached the hotel so mummy and daddy could get the nights to themselves. So while both parents are totally exhausted with a hyper tot on the move, still totally worth all the efforts because we have so so much fun.
Oh I forgot to mention, I have bought the ‘39% off Super-Value Sentosa Package & Family Day’ streetdeal.sg deal so we only need to pay additional $3 for child doubling fee on top of the $39 per pax deal. And I would say it’s worth the check. Imagine we get segway ride (not utilised since we couldn’t with the baby), cable car, luge and skyride all in the price of $39.
First stop after checking into Capella hotel, we went straight for the Skyride + luge ride. The min. height requirement for the skyride is 85cm and poor Sam is not even 80cm according to their height ruler guide indicator. I was all ready to ‘beg’ but lucky us, the operator decided to let us off. Hurray! And off we go up the skyride. Although I usually hesitated when it comes to anything that got to do with height, the speed of having to hop onto the moving ride did not leave us with much time to decide. By the operator’s instructions with ‘baby in the centre and parents on both sides’, we hopped on before we knew it. The view was remarkably breathless and definitely rewarding. Samuel pats his chest and told us he is really scared. Same for the mum. We hold onto him with all our might, in case he slips through the gap. He was so tiny for the seat. The view, the experience took us away. We sat side by side pointing at everything that went by. Mummy was also busy taking pictures while daddy was busy shouting at mummy to hold on tight to the iphone and baby. Haha!
Straight after the skyride, we went on to collect our helmets for the luge ride. The helmets even at size XS and S were too big for both baby and me. The instructor provided some basic instructions on how to manipulate the lube ride. We then zipped off. After the skyride, the daddy has no confidence that playful mummy will look out for baby. So baby went with daddy. Each time the mummy zipped by the baby, he has this ‘I’m too scared and what the heck are you guys doing to me’ look. But still when I asked him if he has fun after everything, he always responded with a yes. It’s our first time on these rides, everything is exhilarating.
Soon it was sunset, time always flew when one is happy. I reviewed all the photos I took with a smile. The spontaneous photo we took on the skyride warmed my heart instantly. Nothing in this world could buy you a happy family shot.
We hurried off to the next location, the cable car. For the whole week, I have been telling Samuel that I will be bringing him to the cable car with the Angry birds. I even called the Cable car sales hotline to make sure the theme is still on and that we don’t need special tickets to be on the cable car with the angry birds theme. It was a funny conversation that goes like that “Hi, can I check that there is angry birds even with normal priced ticket. Oh you mean there might not be Angry birds on all cars? Ah I see so I just have to wait for the birds?” My colleagues in the office were laughing the moment I got off the phone.
After all this wait, Samuel couldn’t wait to get on the cable car mumbling ‘kaible kar…’ nonstop. It was a simple marketing gimmick. All there was some static cling that dressed up the cable cars and a huge angry bird character plush toy in each of the cars. And the children are happy. We went to Mount Faber, check out the angry bird theme stuff that were on sale in the shop and back. It sounds easy but in fact exhausting for running after the baby who is as almost as swift as the wind is not a simple task especially for our age! I kid you not! I have been attempting to take a video of Samuel running but he’s too fast even for the camera.
We were running all over the island the next day. Sometimes I even wondered if we need to plan any activities at all as Samuel seems satisfied just with running.
We spent majority of our time hunting down food with seems scarce for an island that is built for tourists. Or perhaps we were too choosy over the type of food but it doesn’t seems like they have food laid out for the tots unless one considered having fish and chips or fast food for every meal.
At night, we stayed out later then usual just to catch The Songs of the Sea. According to Sentosa site, it was supposed this mesmerizing show with a live cast, dramatic effects and pyrotechnics which turned out to be such a big disappointment. Perhaps I was comparing it to the music fountain dance we used to see when we were young. It was colourful and beautifully tuned as if the water were really dancing to it. I wanted to share the joy of my childhood not knowing they have now tried so hard to enhance it with the laser shows and real dancing by some amateur live cast. They lost us with the plot and it was all confusing and boring for Sam. Other then the ending fireworks and the occasional fire bursts that have his brief attention, I think all he wants is to run free along those seats. I had to consoled myself that the $15 premium ticket I bought is just so that Samuel could get a glimpse of those fireworks.
The rest of the family staycation were much more peaceful. We have wonderful times at the pool and because it was a weekday, the pool is all ours.
Here’s another beautiful memory to add to our family album. 🙂
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