Macau Trip - 4th and 5th day (Venetian & our Hotel)

Taken at the spacious balcony of the hotel we stayed...(Riviera Hotel, formerly called Ritz Hotel)

Karis' enjoying her shower in the bath-tub

Beautiful seaview of Macau captured in the comfort of our hotel room...

Karis' typical cheeky smile :)

Karis with her cheeky smile. As mummy & daddy do not smile in this way at all, wondering where did she learn this smile from??

Playing with FP laptop...

Beautiful night view of Macau...

Macau Trip - 3rd day - Senado Square & St. Paul

At Senado Square

In front of St Paul church facade ruins

Here's our sweetheart and Daddy singing the Incy Wincy spider song in front of the mirror, at the food court of the New Yaohan (xin1 bai3 ban4) departmental store building. We frequent our meals there, as the food is generally yummy, complimented with a new and clean ambience.

Macau Trip - 2nd day - HK Disneyland

Karis' at the HK train station to Disneyland.

Karis in the disney train :)
Standing on the pavement waiting for the Disneyland parade to start...
The travelling journey from our hotel in Macau to HK Disneyland took us a total of more than three hours. Almost half an hour spent in hotel shuttle bus travelling from Macau hotel to the ferry terminal, an hour of ferry ride to Hong Kong (we took the ferry leading to Kowloon instead of Hong Kong so we ended with more time spent in the train ride), and another hour of train ride to Disneyland. Karis' instinctive camera pose is squatting down :) In the Macau ferry terminal back to our Macau hotel. As the travelling time to and fro took us more than five hours, we spent twelve hours of our time outside. Karis' been very well-behaved and resilient despite her mouth ulcer which may have just developed then, due to the HFMD which we found out only when we were back to Singapore then.

Check out Karis playing with Daddy's handphone!

Macau Trip - 1st Day - 2nd October 2008

The three of us in the plane :)

At the Budget Terminal before departing to Macau. Lurves the thrill of sliding down!

Sesame Street stickers, colouring book, Barney videos and Fisher-Price laptop - keeping Karis entertained and occupied throughout the three-and-a-half hour journey.

Barney-packed videos in iPod - Probably the best tool in the world to keep toddlers occupied for hours!

Karis' blabbering with her baby-language through the phone...

and laughing hysterically in the midst of her teleconversation!

Karis' taking video-shoot of herself ...Mimicking us saying the usual "one, two, (three)" before the camera-click :-

Macau trip - Such a resilient and brave girl!

I broke my own record this time round for not updating Karis' blog for more than three months. Probably that's because the toddlerhood phase seems to be physically more demanding, and Karis has reduced her day-time nap to only once, so that accounts for my time spent in updating her blog to be reduced by at least half :) Nevertheless, all the fun, with the very sweet and heart-warming gestures from Karis outweighs the energy and time required!

The three of us set off to Macau for a five-day trip on 2 Oct. Lo and behold, our barang-barang amounts much (of course, our sweetheart is the princess so she's the most barang of all) - one gigantic luggage bag, one luggage bag, two big carrier bags carried by hubby and I, and lastly one Dora bag that is carried by Karis, who demonstrates great accountability towards this responsibility :)

Some of the barang-barang:-
- Clothings, blanket, towel, jacket
- Half a big box of diaper
- One tin of milk powder
- Doll-doll (it's a MUST!)
- Bolster
- FP laptop
- Barney videos downloaded in Ipod
- Books for bedtime story
- Small bottle of olive oil
- Panadol, pamaforte and nurofen and other essential medicine
- Thermometer
- Dora bag containing numerous stickers, colour pencils, pencil and an Elmo colouring book!
- Canned tuna, instant cereals, bread, yogurt bars, rice bars (ha! seems soo much food that we've brought, since it's not as easy to find food in Macau, and we are just typically kiasu to play safe than sorry)
- many more!

Thank God that Karis has been such a strong and brave girl throughout the whole trip and coming back. She had fever and had high fever for a while during the third day. Her milk appetite dropped by at least half for two days while we were overseas, and does not have appetite for food except porridge.

Once we are back to Sing, we were glad that we sought advice from a pediatrician who said that Karis had been infected with HFMD. We had visited our family doc downstairs before that, who confirmed that Karis did not have HFMD. It really seems that the outward signs of HFMD may not be that obvious for Karis' case, or probably for most cases? We are really proud of Karis as the ulcer must be really painful, and throughout the ordeal, our sweetheart had not fret much, and has been very bubbly, happy and active. We were also thankful that the fever lasted less than a day.