Deepavali break

I think I like having a 5 day work week!

This Saturday was the Deepavali holiday so there was
1. No work!
2. No Chinese class
3. Chris wasn't on call or due at work

Was nice, being able to lie around in bed till 7 am (Wow..). Then no rushing around to get anything done quickly because someone was due somewhere.

We made it to the zoo (finally) but the weather suddenly got hot so that sucked. Then for some strange reason Madison fell asleep in the stroller from the car to the entrance of the zoo!! Ridiculous! What was the point of coming to the zoo if she was going to be sleeping!! Sweating buckets and enduring the heat when I could be shopping or relaxing with a book!

So, too bad. Woke her up. Of course she complained but an ant scared the wits out of her and she was awake after that ( that was pretty amusing)

We made it past the Siberian white tiger, the Australian enclosure( wallabies, kangaroo and emu), baboons (red backsides!) and pymy hippos. Then it was already 12noon. So I thought 'oh, better have an early lunch and not get caught in the crowd' ..well.. I guess that's what most people thought too. Or maybe most families eat early! I guess it was the Deepavali break. It was madness at the eating area. The queues were to die for.

Somehow we managed to get
1. Child seat ( thank goodness, but after Japan we'd have been able to make do without )
2. decent food
3. everyone fed.

Of course Madison was complaining and whining by the end of the meal and so the trip kind of became " lunch at the zoo". It was getting too hot anyway.

Today was more a typical Sunday. Morning at the club (default place because they are really child friendly), then down to town to cool off ( free airconditioning !) --today we checked Ion orchard out. Dinner at the parents' ( grandparents) place then off to bed for her. I miss Tokyo weather. And the stuff that you can do outdoors in Tokyo. Sigh.

All in, I had a really good weekend. Wish all weekends were like that.