I'm very happy that Mid Autumn Festival is on a Saturday this year - this means Sito is home and we can 月圆人团圆！In fact, we had two mid autumn excursions this year.
Two Saturdays ago, we went to Sun Yat Sen Memorial Hall. I thought of it too late so the workshop we wanted was sold out. But the big lanterns looked cute on the website so off we went. And lucky us chanced upon a PA event at Zhongshan Park celebrating the festival!
So much fun at the bouncy castle!
And carnival games with prizes to be won!
Magic show on stage!
Yang won a big balloon!
They couldn't get enough of the games...
Dinner was at New Ubin Seafood again. We ordered less this time. Expensive zichar but worth it when the kids seemed to like the food.
Put them all on one side :p
And then we went back to the PA event. More bouncy castle, more games, and even a Chinese dance! I was so surprised that they sat through the dance. Maybe full from dinner plus tired from bouncy castle. As I wrote that last line, I felt glad they didn't puke!
Hello, us!
Yes, watching the Chinese dance
And we still hadn't been to the lanterns, our original destination! So we finally brought them across the road to the now obvious lanterns coz it got dark. The lanterns were of planets. Don't know why it was not all eight *.*
I prepared a little quiz for them - to recite the names of the planets in English, Chinese and in order. We memorised this together before and it was fun to go through again! Or it was fun for me? :p Prizes were M&M fun packs!
Kai reciting the planets in order
My three lovely earthlings :)
Yang took this :)
Needless to say, we got home late. We also had to wait a bit for a taxi. And Yu had carsick - he didn't vomit but he started crying as we were nearing home :(
Last Saturday was the day of the festival itself. After dinner at Beng Hiang at Jurong East, we went to Jurong Lake Gardens for more big lanterns of the seasons and various countries. This time, I brought along a lantern with an electric bulb.
I love to see Kai hold Papa's hand :)
These two released water lanterns... into a tub *.*
Yu decided to join me in this photo :)
We walked quite a bit and Sito was thirsty. We happened to be at the concert place - yes, so 热闹！- and some F&B stalls. The queues were very long and very slow! Sito queued up with Yang for milk tea while I queued with Kai and Yu for sugar cane. At one point, we signalled to each other to just go home but the boys wouldn't hear of it!
So we continued queueing and they continued grumbling... The music was quite nice though and thankfully it wasn't too hot. Sito got his milk tea and bandung drink shortly before me. Yu drank most of the bandung - told him he's like Papa who likes this drink.
We got home even later this time. Our taxi cancelled on us after waiting a long time to get into the gardens. So we walked out and waited outside a school. Another taxi cancelled on us. We were lucky on the third try! Got home past 9 pm!!
Tired Yu sitting on my feet while waiting for our first taxi
Was glad that Yu felt quite ok this time round. He said being sleepy helped, hmmm... The boys dropped off soon enough. Must be tired. We also dropped off after stuffing down all four of our mini snowskin mooncakes haha! Those were our first mooncakes this year. Had a bit more at Mum's place yesterday but I think that was it! Save the calories, save the waist...!
We spotted the full moon on Saturday - it was big! But it was partially concealed by clouds. This morning, I managed to catch a shot of the still full moon. Happy :)
I remembered that last year, I wanted to make my own snowskin mooncake but was too late to start learning. The same thing happened again this year haha! Even busier now without extra help around the house. Anyway, Yu tried mooncake and didn't like it too much. Yang liked the mooncake yesterday. Kai, nooope! Hope they will all grow to enjoy mooncakes soon enough..
This was a really nice Mid Autumn Festival! :)
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