Family Time

Well, it is significant that my blog hit a hiatus on 27 Jun - the reason is both my girls were back, one on the 27th and the other on the 29th. Then began 2 weeks of activities with R trying to squeeze as much as she could into the 2 weeks she had here before going back to Melbourne.

We went for a family holiday to Port Dickson and KL the first week and as expected R had a packed social calendar the next week, trying to meet up with as many friends as she could. It was a nice relaxing time but I don't think I will go back to PD again. It really was a dead town! I had booked us into The Legend Water Chalets and all I can say is - it was an Experience! First we had a really hard time finding the place because their signage was so bad. In fact we even began to doubt whether the hotel still existed and I actually called the travel agent in Singapore to ask!

The room was another Experience for us... You opened the door and walked into the bath area! Yup, that's right! It was some kind of an open concept bath area which meant that when someone was bathing the rest of us had to stay on the bed or on the balcony :) It was weird. I thought perhaps we had been given a honeymoon room by mistake but J pointed out to me that the chalet slept 4, so.....???!!! The first thing we did was to call the reception and ask for another room which had a closed bathroom :) Turned out there was one available but only on the next day so we had an awkward one day in that room before transporting all our things to the room next door the next day!

It was a nice design concept, it had a glass pane on the floor so you could see the sea at your feet but beyond that the hotel was nothing to shout about.

There was no beach and the only entertainment was a Scrabble board we hired, the pool and the children's playground where we spent most of the time. Hahaha...

Our next stop was Mines Resort near KL which was better in terms of entertainment options, had nice rooms too but was really far from KL city. We got lost a couple of times this trip, but generally had a good time.

Back in Singapore R had a packed social calendar and a trail of meetings with friends that stretched till the departure lounge at Terminal 3. I actually sent J to hover around R and her friends to make sure she came back and did not miss her flight :) Didn't make me a popular mum I'm afraid. Didn't do much good for J's image either.

Well, it was really good to have both J & R at home. The last time we had all been together was in Nov last year during my birthday. Now with R away these times will be harder to arrange. Soon J will be going back too. Sigh.

One thing I am glad about is that we went to have a family photo taken at a studio. I'm really happy we managed to do that. If I get digital copies I will post them on my blog :)