Spooky Halloween, Check out my graveyard and choppedup fingers!

ByShannon's Mommy:

I started this entry in December, but never got around to finishing it... so it's late by a couple of months, sorry! But I have to say the photos of the kids and the food are great, so this is worth a look-see...!

Our Condo had a Halloween party on 24th Oct. It was supposed to be 31st, but the function room was booked. I'm happy we have some pretty friendly neighbours, so this is actually a annual event. Last year, not much thought went into the food preparation, but this year, we really tried hard to make it a thematic party...and it was overwhelmingly successful.

All the kids came dressed, and almost ALL the girls came as Fairies and Princesses.. not much of a scary costume, but I guess at that age, all girls just aspire to be that. I went as a fat pink pig, even got fattened especially up for the part... :)

Lauren as a fairy
Shannon as a fairy princess

Me as a Fat Pig



Some of the kids

Ghosts, Witches and bumble bees come out today!

Ultraman and a Angel to the rescue!

Don't the kids look adorable!

The food was fanastic, we tried to make it as gooey and gory as possible, check out my Brownie grave yard and chopped up fingers! Not bad for a creative first attempt I think .. :)

And after that, what else but trick-a-treat!

Abino Peacock?I Kid You Not!!!

By Shannon's Mommy:


I haven't blogged in over 6 months! It's gotten to a point where I had to think hard what's the website address to get here, oh boy!


Anyway, want to get off my butt and start the ball rolling again, I realise that its sad when I can't record down all the memories that the two gals and us have been making.... so bear with me while I start my rusty brain and hands moving...


What have we been up to? Well, the latest thing was our 3 day trip to Sentosa from 27 to 29th Nov. I booked us into The Sentosa Resort, formerly known as Beaufort, the place where we had our dream wedding in 2004. Going back to the hotel was great, the place is still beautiful and serene, the service is still top notch and the experience still memorable.


We checked in on the first day, and saw families of peacocks, usual for this peacful and tranquil place. I remember clearly the mommy peacock and the two half grown babies strutting across the lawn when we had our wedding here. So it was nice to see another mommy peacock, this time with three tiny babies , two spotted and one abino, I kid you not! rumaging through the grass.





We spent the afternoon after checking in at the pool, followed by a lesisurely stroll from Tanjong beach to Beach station for dinner. We tried to get tickets for Songs of the Sea but no luck as it was fully sold out! So we bought tickets for Saturday and went back to the hotel lounge for a coffee before hitting the fluffy king sized bed for the night.






On Saturday, we had a lovely buffet breakfast before bringing the kids to the beach. After that, it was more time at the pool before heading to Imbiah for lunch and a try at the Luge. Shannon wanted to try it out, but after seeing that we all had to don one big bulky helmets, she bailed out on me, leaving me stranded, and having to do the Luge all by myslef. It was fun though, and after that we headed back to the hotel for a nap. In the evening we headed for Songs of the Sea before calling it a night




All too soon, Sunday came... we went to Underwater World, and beat the crowds to it. I had a fun time feeding the stingrays,and Shannon was intrigued by the Sea Angels, who strangely enough, reallky looked like little tiny cute fat angels! We walked over to the new Dolphin lagoon and got a rare treat seeing the dolphins do some practise jumps.





After that, we headed back to the hotel for a quiet room service lunch. The hotel surprised me with a birthday cake, and we had sumptious Fried rice and beef kway tiao together with complimentary black forest cake. The food is still sooo yummy....




After a late check out at 3pm, Shannon suddenly announced that she was ready to try the Luge again. I was figuring that she would play me out again, but this time, she went through with it, and had fun doing it, that's my girl! After ice cream in the hot sun, we hauled the kids back into the car, and said goodbye to Sentosa, amid Shannon's waililing ' Iwannna gooo backkkkk..........'