Actually I had planned to go to the Big Buddha today. But Dear and I decided that because Caden was still not feeling too well, we do not want to travel so much. Moreover, we all enjoyed ourselves a lot at Disneyland; we do not mind going back again.
So in the morning, we had our breakfast in the hotel. Then we walked around the place for a while and head back to our room to do our final packing.
We check out after that and headed to Disneyland. Of course, the entire
luggage were in the hotel’s care.
We went around taking photos with a lot of the Disney characters. It’s something for Caden to remember when he grows up. We can tell him he saw, Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Goofy and the rest of the friends. Next we took the train around the fun land.
But towards the end of the ride, Caden fell asleep. So I carried him in my arms while we venture around. We landed in the gift shop eventually and we bought so much stuff there. Gifts for friends and relative and most importantly, gifts for ourselves. We also managed to catch the Disney Parade. Initially we thought Caden might miss it as he was sleeping, but 5 minutes into the parade, he suddenly woke up and totally captivated by the parade. It didn’t take too long for him to get into the mood. He was pointing here and there as usual and telling me the things that he saw.
Right after the parade, we headed back to the hotel. The hotel has agreed to give us a room for us to freshen up before we go to the airport. It was a pretty nice gesture of the hotel. So we washed Caden up and as well as ourselves. As we still have some time, we continued shopping a bit in the hotel Disney shop. I decided to buy Caden a Mickey Safari remote control car. Reason being that, there was a demo set for kids to try. He was absolutely immersed in playing it. But when other kids were playing, he did not try to snatch or fight for it. I felt that was good manner on his part. And so, Caden has a new toy.
We were waiting and waiting for the local tour agency to pick us up to the hotel but it did not come. In the end, we had to rush ourselves into a cab and dash to the airport. Luckily we were still on time and even managed to get seats together on the plane.
On the way back, little Caden was not feeling too well and refuses to sleep. Even eventually when he managed to do so, he was turning and turning. Poor little boy, he must have been really tired. And the worst thing is that we need to seat him up during landing to buckle him up properly. This made him very cranky. But after the plane landed, he went back to sleep. All the way till we picked up our luggage, he woke up. He saw Po Po and Gong Gong waiting at the airport, welcoming him back. We were fortunate that Gong Gong came and pick us up and gave us a ride back. And that wraps up our first overseas trip with Caden.
Though we were extremely tired and missed out on some of the attractions that we planned to see. We felt that it was really worth it. I feel that through this trip, it has bonded my relationship with Caden. Perhaps because of work, at some times, I was not around in Singapore. So I didn’t really spend time with him. But in this trip, we took care of him every hour every minute. We washed his utensils, prepared his food, his clothing. Carried him around, companying him to sleep and making him poo all by ourselves. Though it was a short 5 days, it strengthens our belief that even without a maid, we are more than capable of taking care of our son on our own. It was really a meaningful trip for us. Though tiring, we do not mind doing it for our son.
PS: more pics here; http://picasaweb.google.com/adrnt14/HongKongTrip
