A beautiful holiday

We are back from Shanghai.

We had such a wonderful holiday. Both hubby and I felt that we had a good week there with Candra. When we left, we felt so satisfied that we were prepared to return home. For once, we did not feel that time was flying past us and we were really enjoying every moment as a family slowly. We had a good time with my little sister too. Nothing beats spending time with family.

We were so blessed to be able to stay on a beautiful island with a golf resort for free :) Lodging in the mini chalet house-like unit was fantastic. The air was good, the food was good, the weather was really the best weather for a holiday, the greenery was good....everything just felt so good. We were also richly blessed by the kindness of friends there that we hardly spent on anything over and above the air ticket.

Our trips into Shanghai city were fun too. With Candra around, we could not travel out to the city that much, but we traveled sufficiently to make us feel satisfied :) Candra took some naps on the long car rides.

The Shanghai Expo was great too. Although we did not get to go inside many pavilions because of the super long queues, just looking at the exterior of the buildings were great too. Candra loves the mascot by the name of "Hai bao" and she could actually pronounced the words quite well.

It's hard to describe the whole trip in a few words.. but I would just say that we really enjoyed ourselves tremendously, all thanks to God! Candra behaved well on the flights (out of our expectations).. although her sleep at night weren't too good and we had disrupted sleep on most nights, her naps were great. She enjoyed herself, behaved herself most of the time and taking care of her was just wonderful. She's such a sweet darling.

Hubby was a very hands-on daddy and he was such a great help. He helped to prepare Candra's daily meals etc. We had to coordinate with each other quite a bit but the partnership turned out to be a good experience too. With one child it's challenging, with more to come, there will be greater challenges I am sure. :) We learnt and enjoyed the process. :)

Well, we discovered on the trip that Candra's really like me. She LOVES to eat. She says, "mum, mum, mum, mum" (asking for food) throughout the day and she refuses to take her own food which we had prepared unless we added some of the stuff we had. She's such a foodie.. JUST LIKE ME! haha!

Wow............no regrets going on this holiday really!