Journey back home

To all my faithful readers of my blog, mommy has a pleasant surprise for all of you. Yes, we are back in Singapore now, just in time for the Chinese Lunar New Year which is just a few days away from now. We departed from San Francisco Airport at noon on 17th Jan, and embarked on our much awaited journey back home.

The total flight hours back home is about 20 hours, including a 3 hours transit time at Narrita Airport in Japan. This was the longest flight that our little girl has taken so far in her life even though she did fly for over 20 hours in mommy's tummy two years ago when we flew from Singapore to Canada. Thinking back, her life journey has straddled across North America and Asia. She was conceived in Canada, diagnosed in Singapore and finally delivered in United States. Now, she is making her first trip to Singapore where mommy and daddy grew up

Poor Sheri! Mommy and daddy had to wake her up at 4.00 am in the morning to go to the airport. Fortunately, she has been quite cooperative. Here she is, enjoying her raisin bread while waiting for the flight at San Francisco Airport.

Travelling on a long distance flight with a full fledged toddler can be very challenging at times. Daddy and mommy had difficulties keeping her restrained on her stroller when we encountered some problems with our check-in luggages. Apart from this, our girl is generally well-behaved throughout the whole journey. At the airport, she kept her entertained by going up and down the escalator and travellator.

That certainly sapped up all her energy that she was totally knocked out after we transited at Narrita Airport in Japan.
Here she is, sleeping on the airplane while hugging her favourite bolster that Ah Ma made for her when she was born.


Japan is a country that is renowned for its electronic gadgets. Even their toilet in the public restroom has an electronic side panel for user to play with while using the toilet. Pretty interesting, isn't it?

Jungle Gym Martial Arts Workshop

It's second Friday of the month again. If you have followed my earlier post, you should know we are very enthusiastic in attending the family dance workshop organized by YMCA on every second Friday of the month. Yesterday, the workshop was on Jungle Gym Martial Arts.
Everyone of us was crawling around like an animal in the class.

See how actively both adults and kids participate in the class.

Perhaps it was because there was no music, our little girl lost interest in the class after awhile. We had no choice but to leave before the class ended.

Children's Fairyland

Today, we went to Children's Fairyland in Oakland, California, a ten-acre outdoor storybook park with children's fairy tale theme.

This was the first theme park in the United States and was built in 1950 to cater specially to families with young children. It was reported that even Walt Disney came to Fairyland to get ideas for Disneyland.

We were greeted by this bubble machine when we first entered the park. Bubbles are beautiful. Bubbles are magical. They always never fail to bring smiles to children and adults alike.

The Three Little Pigs

Our little Sheri had fun playing in the pigs' houses.

Alice in the Wonderland.

Can our little girl find her way out of the maze?



Miss Muffet and the Spider




A wishing well

There was also a small farm in the park, which of course, is our little girl's favourite hunt.
Here comes this over-zealous girl, petting the baby goat.

We finally had a chance to see the Alpaca, which was one of the animals that she learnt from the 'Animal Adventure' episode on 'Wheels on the Bus' CD

There were also gentle rides in the park, specially catered for small children.



Merry-go-round

Playing with the water fountains in the park.

Posing with a flower girl

Sitting on a dragon

Another favourite place for our little girl........ the sandbox.


Overcoming the obstacle's course with daddy

After all the fun and play, our little girl finally fell asleep on our way home. Before we left, we took a picture at Lake Merrit which is just outside the Children's Fairyland.

We took the Bart(Bay Area Transit) home. Doesn't the Bart Station look similar to that in Singapore?