Back from holiday

We had another stay-cation at Resorts World Sentosa this week. The kids had a lot of fun and we decided that it was probably more worth it to just check in at a local hotel for future holidays. This time, my parents came with us. My mom used her Resorts World membership points to redeem 2 nights' stay at Festive Hotel for us.

The kids loved the hotel pool, almost endless supply of ice-cream and candy and the cosy hotel room. Ryan keeps wanting to go back to the "hauntel" room....creepy but funny. Keane calls it "The Bed".

The day trip to Universal Studios was not exciting, as expected. We bought the tickets on Monday for entry on Tuesday. We had a bonus discount of 15% for 6 of the tickets because hubby was NTUC member. There's a promotion going on.

We went to the park at about 10am and hit the carousel ride first. That may not have been a wise move. Read on to find out why.

We learnt from last year's mistake and gave the 4D show at Far Far Away Land (aka Shrek land) a miss. But we went onto the mini ferris wheel. The kids enjoyed that ride and it was the first time I heard shrieks and yells coming out of a ferris wheel cabin! Imagine if we were on a roller coaster ride....

We went for the Donkey Live show. Still at Far Far Away. I was expecting a real donkey or at least a fella in a donkey costume. Turned out to be an interactive animation show. The most fun part was when Keane took part in the show. Conversation with emcee Ross and Donkey.

Ross: What's your name?
Keane: Keanetan!
Ross: Keanton?
Keane: Keanetan!
Ross: ???
Mom: Keane.
Ross: Oh! Keane Tan!
Ross: You had a question for Donkey earlier. What was it?
Keane: Erm....because Donkey can sing anything?
This threw Ross off for a couple of seconds...
Ross: Erm...yeah, Donkey can sing anything. (recovery taken place). So how old are you?
Here I'm starting to sweat cos Keane has not been able to differentiate the questions "how old are you" and "how are you"...
Keane: Five! (phew!)
Ross: Where are you from?
Keane: Singapore! (well done Keane!)
Donkey: Are you married Keane?
Keane: Yes!
Donkey: Oooh...where's your wife?
Keane shrugs.
Donkey: You don't know where's your wife?!?! Ah! Did you leave your wife at home?
Keane: (still clueless) Yes!
Donkey: Ah! That's a good plan! Leave the wife at home and come to Universal Studios by yourself!
Ross: Alright Keane, can you dance like Donkey?
Donkey does a tap dance and Keqne follows suit. Donkey shakes his booty and Keane does it back at him.
Ross: Alright Keane, let's help Donkey get started for his next song. Can you say 5, 6, 7, 8?
Keane: 5, 4, 3, 2, 1!
Ross: Erh....that will work too. Let's give it up for Keane!
You couldn't find any prouder parents that day.

We went for lunch and Ryan promptly fell asleep after lunch. We left him with Perla and went to check out the rest of the park. Went for a boat ride at Madagascar and shopping at Jurassic Store.

Hubby wanted to check out the Transformers ride but found out there was a 115min wait at the queue! We should have gone to the Transformers ride first!

Hubby headed back to hotel with Xavier and Keane while the rest of is went for coffee.

We took the train ride out to Vivocity for dinner on Tuesday evening. The rest of the time was spent in the hotel room.

Even though it wasn't glamourous, we still had good fun as a family and that's what is important.