So, after Gareth's half day on Tuesday of the September school holidays, the next child to have an exclusive day out with me was Chloe. She was all excited about it. We started our day at Westgate, having our breakfast at Ya Kun:
After that, we spent most of our morning at the Timezone arcade place there. There were lots of machines where you play games, and depending on how you did, a number of tickets were given. With enough tickets, you can exchange for prizes at the counter. Of course, it was made such that the prizes were never going to be worth the amount of money spent getting them, but hey, we had great fun playing those games, and who can price fun, right?
We got a whole bunch of tickets, that we exchanged for some prizes, but we got a bonus as well. Played the claw machine, and we got a Pooh bear!
While we were at the arcade, I was contacted by the owner of the car that Gareth made a dent in the previous day(see post on Gareth's day part 1), and arranged with him to meet up to pay him for the damages. It was a significant amount, and was a bit of a dampener. Chloe was a bit upset about the whole thing, because a bit of time had to be sacrificed from her day for this, but overall I thought she was relatively magnanimous about it. Didn't make too big of a fuss, and was determined not to let it spoil her whole day.
So anyway, we arranged to meet the guy, paid him the money, and continued with our outing.
Managed to take this cool pic at Raffles City:
As well as this not-so-cool one at one of the shopping malls at Somerset(they are all next to each other, can't remember which is which):
We walked around the Somerset shopping malls, not really buying anything, but still having lots of fun. Chloe enjoyed the time together a lot:
Finally we settled on a Japanese restaurant for dinner. We were there a few minutes before opening time, there was another cool statue outside the restaurant, so just enough time for another silly pic:
The food was pretty good for the price. It was a buffet, so we ate our hearts out.
My girl loves her sashimi:
Desserts always bring a smile to anyone, right?:
It was a great day. Chloe had her father all to herself for one day, and I could tell she really loved it. It was a great opportunity to spend quality time with her, because on other days, things keep happening, she has to do things she doesn't like, she gets upset and throws tantrums, then we get upset and scold her. We are still figuring this out, and doing our best to balance out the disciplining so that it's not so hard on her(and the rest), but having such time really helps to build great memories, for myself, but more importantly, for her.
Even as I write this, about 3 months plus after the event, I'm thinking, another such a day is overdue.
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