Vesak Day heng heng

We had such a scare on Vesak Day.

I was on the PIE, lane 2 or 3, when a grey van suddenly turned left into my lane. I immediately swerved left to the next lane to avoid crashing into it. Of course I didn't have the time to check blind spot! I spotted a white car or van on the lane to my left which thankfully did not ram into us.

So so lucky!

Don't know what the grey van was doing! For sure didn't check blind spot. But the way it turned was also strange. Normally, we change lanes quite gradually. This one did a very sharp left turn.

Very lucky for us la...

And the superstitious in me said that we were safe coz we were on our way to a temple...

I was looking at going to a Buddhist temple on Vesak Day and landed on the one in Balestier so that we could go to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall too. There was also a park nearby.

Swing outside the museum

Taken by Yu :)

Sito first noticed that this 鸡仙人 looked like KFC...

There were also Marvel superheroes - Captain America is on his new shoes!

A lady informed us that there was an activity as part of the Singapore Heritage Festival with vouchers to be won so Kai was motivated to go into the museum. But these kids really 走马看花 and dashed through the place *.*

Where did Dr Sun visit?

Comparing with bound feet

The last question required us to go to Zhongshan Park. It was a very small park, and not the kind where you can kick a ball about. We brought a ball that wasn't used *.* Anyway, we got our vouchers!

Next was the temple. The last time I went to a Buddhist temple on Vesak Day was maybe 30 years ago?! And the last time I went to one was during maternity leave for Yu, i.e. 2016/2017.

Took off our shoes and went in. Only Yang allowed me to share with him about 拜拜 :) No need to ask for anything, just 拜 after the close shave on PIE!

Kai was really grouchy about it so we left very quickly. Why is everything boring to this boy??

We spent some time in Zhongshan Mall and bought a Rubik's cube for Yang. Then we sat down at Macs where the boys played a game on my phone while waiting for New Ubin Seafood to open at 6 pm.

Over-ordered! And the prawns hadn't arrived yet!

Kai had a lot of beef, Yang had a lot of bee hoon, Yu had a lot of fries, haha! We had to pack fried rice, bee hoon, prawn balls and chilli crab tarts home. Had them for lunch the next day, supplemented with bacon, but the kids didn't like the fried rice.

We were on our way to the carpark when we realised we hadn't spent all the vouchers! So we went back :p This time, we got Kai a complex Rubik's cube with 12 sides - he hasn't solved it yet but he's close!

Waiting for the car to be lifted down

I parked at the building next to the mall coz blur. And as there is no grace period, we stayed there. But quite fun, the kids got to see a lift carpark at work.

Besides the vouchers, there were also a paper activity, a bottle of water and a pack of tissue in each goodie bag from the museum. We dug out the activity the next day.

Yang and Yu put their paper stationery holder together

With that, we said bye to Vesak Day holidays. No more until July!