brought h as my partner for a friend/ex-colleague's wedding at st andrew's cathedral the previous saturday as i thought it would be nice to show her the interior of the old dame with its stained glass, pipe organ, dark wooden pews and the intricately carved and decorated pulpit and altar which we don't see very often nowadays.
she was suitably impressed for a good 15 minutes but when the bridal procession ended, she started bugging me to go home ("ok let's go home now!")
thank goodness for paper, crayons, sweets and TTG's ipad which had a drawing app that got her hooked. there were still several irritated "are you blind?!!" "i told you i want red!" exclamations from her along the way when i didn't follow her instructions on what to draw/colour, but at least she kept still and didn't fuss. if she did, i am sure her voice would have carried far and wide given the good acoustics in the cathedral!!
enjoyed the wedding - there's something magical about weddings, the lilting hymns (played on a pipe organ which made it extra grand) and hearing the exchange of vows - plus it was good seeing many ex-colleagues and catching up at the sidelines ...
we then headed to the lego play area at raffles city as promised her that morning ... she's such a sucker for lego and could probably have stood playing with the lego blocks for the whole afternoon if i let her. noticed that she has a knack of pallying up with older boys to get them to help her reach blocks that are too deep in the brick bins, and those boys bless them are obliging enough to help her. so nice!
then it was lunch at sushi tei (we skipped the wedding lunch reception) where she wolfed down lots of ramen, two chawan mushis and a scoop of ice cream. she also charmed the chefs who were prepping food behind the glass panels and also the waitress who promised her a scoop of ice cream if she returned on her birthday. heh.
we then took the train and a double decker bus back to the grandparents' home. she used her child concession card (free travel!) for the first time and felt oh so important being able to tap herself through the ticket turnstiles at the train station instead of having to hurry in with me all the time in the past.
really enjoyed spending a good part of the day with h that day ... have been wanting to spend some quality one-on-one time with h which is not really possible on weekdays, so was glad to have the chance to do so that day.
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