Remember my Grand plan??

Well, this is the D-day!! After a day of harried packing, we ended up with one huge Samsonite and its baby. Why was it so much easier to pack 10 years ago? Packing involved only 1 pair of jeans, 3 sets of T-shirts, 1 sweater, 2 pairs of socks – well you get the idea. Now it’s 10 pairs of pants… no-no, what if she wets herself and we don’t have time to do laundry, ok, 20 pairs of pants.. that should be enough. 3 sets of sweaters, what if it suddenly turns cold and I wouldn’t want 宝贝 to catch a cold, right, 6 sets of sweaters, in you go!

At 11pm, we woke 宝贝up from her sleep, changed her (believe it or not, she had her eyes closed), carried her down to wait for the taxi.

At the Changi Airport, she’s up and going! Wheeee! (mental note : it’s going to be a looooong night) Grandpa and Grandma turned up to send us off. They were going to miss us! (I was sure it was more her than us. Sigh! My princess reign has ended and a new one is on my throne…)

Having been to numerous airports around the world, I proclaim the Changi Airport to be the very very best! Why?! It’s open round the clock! Even at unearthly hours, all the shops are still open! Can you imagine having to spend hours of transit time in a dead airport?! I spent 12 hours at Chiang Kai Shek airport, waiting for my adjourning flight to Vancouver. Believe me, it’s worse than death!!!

Changi Airport has services from massage, shower rooms, free wifi (best of all!!), butterfly park (it was awesome in the day, but all the butterflies were asleep when we were there), a fantastic children’s playground, basically anything and everything!! You will have a lack for NOTHING when you are there. Speaking of being spoilt for choice!!

I have always looked forward to entering the restricted part of the airport. But sometimes family farewells tend to drag. And when family turns up to send you off, it’s not too polite to tell them, “Hey! Actually I want to go shopping in the airport. Erm.. can we go in now??” Sigh…